Luck

[richard]

Hey keep your pants on bud. And don't bend over without a belt, silly.

Originally Posted by richard

Hey keep your [size="7"]pants on[/size="7"] bud.

Hey aquarium drunkard...

Watch Homeland. It makes Luck look like Friends spin-off Joey.

[rpncaine]

Or Justified...

[mclem0822]

Originally Posted by rpncaine

Or Justified...

Great show! Terrific performances by Tim Olyphant, and Walton Goggins (who was very good on The Shield as well), but he's even better here as Boyd.

[rpncaine]

Read where Olyphant's portrayal has inspired Elmore Lenoard to write a full novel around the character. Titled it "Raylan". He was so great in Deadwood. Between him and Ian McShane and John Hawkes, that was one terrific series.

[trackrat59]

Originally Posted by rpncaine

Read where Olyphant's portrayal has inspired Elmore Lenoard to write a full novel around the character. Titled it "Raylan". He was so great in Deadwood. Between him and Ian McShane and John Hawkes, that was one terrific series.

Yes it was. The best show ever. Did you notice on the last Luck episode that W. Earl Brown (Dan Dority) played the trainer that won the shake for the horse?

[rpncaine]

Yeah. At first I thought it was Danny McBride! They look alot alike. Expecting for lots of Deadwood alums to show up in this show too.

[Danzig]

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...r-horse-deaths


you had to know if there was a show about horses and racing, peta wouldn't be long for filing complaints!

in that vein, anyone see that peta and others are calling for a skechers boycott because of their dog racing commercial??

[Kasept]

The stable of horses that are running in the filmed races never go more than 3f. They are scanned and evaluated before/after each filming session. There was the equivalent of more than 2,000 races run in season one and based on the injury database statistics, 2 deaths is half of what would normally be expected in that many races.

Both horses in question were felled by odd injuries. One took a misstep after training, fell and broke a shoulder. The other suffered a rare femur fracture -- rather than cannon. Every horse involved in 'Luck' has been guaranteed a safe home for the rest of their lives by HBO and Red Board.

The animal activists would only be happy if there was no racing... At that point of course, there would be no horses bred. Then what would they do with their lives?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Kasept

The stable of horses that are running in the filmed races never go more than 3f. They are scanned and evaluated before/after each filming session. There was the equivalent of more than 2,000 races run in season one and based on the injury database statistics, 2 deaths is half of what would normally be expected in that many races.

Both horses in question were felled by odd injuries. One took a misstep after training, fell and broke a shoulder. The other suffered a rare femur fracture -- rather than cannon. Every horse involved in 'Luck' has been guaranteed a safe home for the rest of their lives by HBO and Red Board.

The animal activists would only be happy if there was no racing... At that point of course, there would be no horses bred. Then what would they do with their lives?

yeah, not just no racing...no ownership at all for any reason. can't help but wonder if they've thought all that thru...how would dogs survive without humans to feed them? they are simply amazing. well, or morons-whatever you prefer to call them.

[LARHAGE]

PETA should have as much care and concern for the dogs they killed and dumped in trash bins behind their office, they are attention seeking hypocritical whores.

[richard]

In the Paulick Report Cot Campbell bemoans Luck.
" But I think—in the interest of some accuracy—that the attractive, sporting, pageantry side of racing should be given at least a nod."

http://www.paulickreport.com/news/pe...ing-no-favors/

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by richard

In the Paulick Report Cot Campbell bemoans Luck.
" But I think—in the interest of some accuracy—that the attractive, sporting, pageantry side of racing should be given at least a nod."

http://www.paulickreport.com/news/pe...ing-no-favors/

what a terrible letter from cot campbell. "I'm rich, and they arent showing enough classy, rich people on this HBO horse racing show... if horse racing was really like this, classy, rich people like me wouldnt be involved".

barf.

I dont know why people in the racing industry think this show should be promoting all the great things involved with horse racing. If you want that, make a documentary for PBS.

This show is about suspense and drama. The setting is a race track. I think the characters are awesome. If people think this show was made to save the racing industry, they are delusional.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by richard

In the Paulick Report Cot Campbell bemoans Luck.
" But I think—in the interest of some accuracy—that the attractive, sporting, pageantry side of racing should be given at least a nod."

Campbell is right. They should totally do a balanced series of episodes where they show the rise and fall of a highly touted horse. The first half would be the pageantry: The horse would be the half-brother of an upstart Kentucky Derby winner. He would be sold at a 2yo-in-training sale to a famed racing syndicate for $500,000. He would be turned over to a corporate trainer that wins everything. He would show stakes quality in his initial starts.

Then the seedy underside: His form will take an abrupt nose dive. He'll disappear from the racetrack for a year. He'll return as a gelding. He'll make a comeback and fail miserably. Rather than retirement, the racing syndicate will turn him over to another trainer on a lesser circuit and run him for $5,000, 1% of his original purchase price. The horse will win, but he'll also be claimed.

The audience is left wondering if the horse will be sentenced to a career of complete decline, running for starter fees in Pennsylvania or if he'll go on a massive tear in $5k starters a la Rapid Redux...

Pageantry, Sportsmanship. If Brother Bird had a middle finger, he'd reserve it for Cot Campbell.