Perhaps on the heels of the forthcoming Secretariat movie set for late 2010 release, Animal Planet’s series Jockey’s, and the demise of ABC Family Channel’s Wildfire, which ceased in early 2008, there is some life in using racing as a backdrop for another show:
(Yep, the same Michael Mann producer from Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice fame - which did have scenes from Hialeah in the intro and jai-alai as Barnfairy noted before)
Variety Jan 5, 2010 “Mann, Milch in ‘Luck’ with HBO”
Michael Mann is in talks to direct “Luck,” an hourlong HBO series pilot about horse racing culture created by David Milch.
Milch, who wrote the series pilot, last brought “John From Cincinnati” and “Deadwood” to HBO.
Milch will be exec producer, along with former HBO programming topper Carolyn Strauss and Mann. The plan is to shoot in April, most likely at Santa Anita Race Track.
Getting to the starting gate is a major achievement for Milch, who has seen horse racing from every angle, including owning close to 100 horses and winning several Breeders’ Cup races.
“The pilot is about a bunch of intersecting lives in the world of horse racing,” Milch told Daily Variety. “It’s a subject which has engaged and some might say has compelled me for 50 years. I’ve joked that if I just can make $25 million on this show, I’ll be even on research expenses. I find it as complicated and engaging a special world as any I’ve ever encountered, not only in what happens in the clubhouse and the grandstand, but also on the backside of the track, where the training is done and where they house the horses.”
I’ll wager $20 that somehow one-time minor actor Jimmy “The Hat” Allard, now a professional gambler seen in Jockey’s, will be somehow in this show in some capacity 
