Sentences with phrase «racehorse who»
A heart - tugging story about a racehorse who came back after breaking a leg is a natural to win high marks.
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A man who named his racehorse «Concrete Charlie» showed up, as did one man who said he attended the iconic 1960 game at Yankee Stadium where Bednarik cemented himself into NFL folklore with a knockout hit on Giants halfback Frank Gifford.
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.
«He also will give Astorino a painting done by Tedisco's wife, Mary, of a racehorse named Jim Dandy, who in l930, defeated a Triple Crown - winning horse named Gallant Fox by eight lengths at the Travers Stakes in Saratoga.»
Carol Gillis, a longtime veterinarian and researcher who specializes in soft - tissue injuries in racehorses, says that the more than 22,000 ultrasound images she has captured in her studies and clinical practice have convinced her that with a tightly regimented exercise program, tendons and ligaments will heal, producing strong, well - organized fibers — all without the use of stem cells.
There are other characters that come and go, not least Chloë Sevigny as a jockey who warns Charley that racehorses are not pets, and Steve Zahn as a down - on - his - luck type who nonetheless gives Charley a hand when the boy's natural pride and shyness preclude him from asking.
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.
Rating: PG - 13 Year: 2014 Cast: Skeet Ulrich, Christian Kane, William Devane Director: Jim Wilson Based on the true story of Mine That Bird, a crooked - footed racehorse that qualified for the Kentucky Derby in 2009, and his misfit cowboy owners who got him there.
U.S. actor Charlie Plummer, 18, was named best young performer for portraying a lonely boy who befriends a tired old racehorse in Andrew Haigh's «Lean on Pete.»
Last month's «Lean on Pete» told the devastating story of a teenager (Charlie Plummer, a revelation) who befriends a downtrodden racehorse and travels with him from Oregon to Wyoming.
Oscar nominee Joan Allen will play a woman who runs a program for prison inmates to care of broken - down racehorses.
18 - year - old actor is a breakthrough in this powerful drama about a boy who bonds with a broken - down racehorse
The eighteen - year - old gives a bracingly mature and nuanced performance as Charley, a young boy living with his single father who takes on a job with Steve Buscemi's Del caring for his racehorses, including the aging steed of the title, with whom he builds a particularly close connection.
Based on the novel by Willy Vlautin, «Lean on Pete» tells the story of 15 - year - old Charley, a lonely boy who finds friendship in an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete.
The Audience Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to: Dark Horse / United Kingdom (Director: Louise Osmond)-- Dark Horse is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a workingman's club who decide to take on the elite «sport of kings» and breed themselves a racehorse.
Andrew Haigh's drama is about Charley, a lonely 15 - year - old boy who befriends a tired old racehorse and sets out on a perilous journey across the American West.
British filmmaker Andrew Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) hits the American highway for this touching, slightly underwhelming tale of a troubled teen who strikes up a rapport with an ailing racehorse.
Prior to this Wallinger had made a lusciously detailed 1992 oil painting of a racehorse under the characteristically multi-meaning title Race, Class, Sex, and a self - portrait as Emily Davison, the suffragette who threw herself in front of the king's horse in 1913.
The press release talks about the racehorse Overdose who died in 2015, about the falcon's upper beak that allows the bird to «rip apart the back of the skull of its prey», about spit and saliva.
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.
I fully expect Racehorse to redirect the conversation to a meaningless detail, and half expect Mosh to issue a drive - by on why you're not knowledgeable enough to make «those who matter» listen.