Film - Dreamer with Kurt Russell and Dakota Fanning

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Patches

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The horse that stars in the film as Sonador is called "sacrifice". Just wondered whether she's a well known runner in the states or whether she was "just" an acting horse.

Beautiful mare I must say and the film did make me cry! I'm so soppy
 
Made me cry too
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Oh dear, we'll have to buy the DVD now then! We recorded it on Sky the other night.

Lovely film. Really enjoyed it. It says it's inspired by a true story.....so what horse really recovered from a spiral fracture and went on to win a big race? I know they mention one in the film (forget it's name but something Maria crops in my head for God knows what reason!)

Edited to add...It was Mariah's Storm! I wasn't far off!

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A promising filly, Mariah's Storm was quickly building points towards a bid in the 1993 Breeder's Cup—in which she would have been one of the favorites—when she suddenly fractured a left front cannon bone in the Alcibiades Stakes. An injury that severe could have ended her career, but her owners and trainers did not lose faith. The fracture eventually healed, but the question of whether or not she would ever race again remained.

The question was soon answered. In September 1993, before her injury, Mariah's Storm had won the Arlington Washington Lassie, a Grade II stakes race for two-year-old fillies. After her recovery, in August 1994, she came back to win the Arlington Heights Oaks, a Grade III stakes race for three-year-old fillies. In September of the following year, she again confounded prognosticators by winning the Arlington Matron Handicap, a Grade III stakes race for three-year-old and older females, making her the only horse ever to win all three stakes races for her age class at Arlington. Her achievement was so unprecedented that there is now a race at Arlington Park named for her: the Mariah's Storm Stakes. In 1995, Mariah's Storm also won the 1995 Turfway Breeder's Cup, upsetting the favorite, Serena's Song.

Perhaps the most telling sign of Mariah's Storm's original promise has come in her progeny. She is the dam to several racing champions, the most notable of which is Giant's Causeway, the 2000 Horse of the Year and the sire of Noble Causeway, who most recently raced in the 2005 Kentucky Derby.

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Bless her heart.
 
Awww, thanks for that Patches. I wondered when I watched it which horse it was based on. I have to say, I was given the dvd as a present and was sceptical that I would like it but I also shed a tear
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