Secretariat -- the movie

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Originally Posted by Danzig

racing would be better supported if you took your sisinlaw to the track and got her to bet more often.
i won't go see it, but that has more to do with my dislike in general for most movies. i doubt this one is much good-which is a shame, since secretariat was so good. but i saw what they did to the seabiscuit book, can't imagine this would be any better.


heck, i'd have rather they made a movie about slew. seabiscuit and this one are about rich folks with a horse. seattle slew was that groups first horse, bought for not a whole lot of money, and look what he did. now that's a tale.

I'm working on it. I have gotten a lot of friends and family to bet here and there, and they know more and are more enthusastic about racing now. It's slow to progress as many are overwhelmed with other commitments. But we're getting there. Buddies of mine are now attending tournaments too.

I agree that whatever they do will fall short of the true story. Secretariat was a horse of truly mythic proportions. He was Pegasus.

If they make a Seattle Slew movie, I'm going to that one too.