Sentences with phrase «racehorse called»

British filmmaker Andrew Haigh («Weekend»,»45 Years») hits the American highway for this touching, if slightly underwhelming, tale of a troubled boy who strikes up a rapport with an ailing racehorse called Lean on Pete.

Not exact matches

A young man once let his father call a coin toss, and from that simple act the greatest racehorse in history ran in someone else's silks.

About six months later Luro received a call from a man in Chile, who introduced himself as A.E. Silver, an American trainer shopping for racehorses in South America.

«Some genes, like so - called speed genes in great racehorses, skip a generation and only express in grandchildren if their carrier was a certain sex.

This new procedure is being tested on former racehorses and rodeo horses to determine if it is more effective than a commonly used cartilage repair treatment in the U.S. called «microfracture.»

So when a local racehorse owner, played by Steve Buscemi, offers him a casual job looking after his horses — including a chestnut called Lean On Pete — Charley jumps at the chance.

Wallinger, a former racing aficionado who once bought a racehorse and called it A Real Work of Art, has produced an edition of 30 models of the white thoroughbred to raise money to «reenergize» the project.

Wallinger took the prize for his painstaking recreation of Brian Haw's protest against the Iraq war, State Britain, and has recently been in the public eye again for his proposals for the so - called «Angel of the South», which would involve creating a 50m - high white racehorse near the A2 in Ebbsfleet.

Nick Stokes, Some call you Racehorse Stokes, after the sleazy, but sometimes effective lawyer, Haynes.