Horse Racing at the Movies

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‘Audiences went along with the awkward compromise and flocked to the film’ – Jay Hovdey on Jean Harlow’s farewell in Saratoga
Jay Hovdey | Jul 21, 2024 |
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‘Horses never kid … they always tell the truth’ – when legendary filmmaker Fred Zinnemann tried his hand at racing
Jay Hovdey | Jun 23, 2024 |

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‘The sport deserves a better cinematic version of Secretariat – and so does Secretariat’
Jay Hovdey | May 26, 2024 |
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‘Shergar, Shergar, where are you?’ When one of racing’s most disturbing mysteries hit the silver screen
Jay Hovdey | Apr 21, 2024 |
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‘Just enough grit to leaven the fantasy’ – tugging at the heartstrings with the tale of a girl and her horse
Jay Hovdey | Mar 24, 2024 |
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The curious case of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and a missing racehorse – or when the small screen beat the big screen
Jay Hovdey | Feb 25, 2024 |
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‘A racing tale spilled straight from the guts of people who cared very much about getting things right’ – Jay Hovdey on Jockey
Jay Hovdey | Feb 11, 2024 |
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‘A high-calorie feast of delightful excess’ – Jay Hovdey on Kincsem biopic
Jay Hovdey | Dec 24, 2023 |
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‘A stone cold horse racing classic from nearly 70 years ago that I’d never heard of, let alone seen’
Jay Hovdey | Nov 26, 2023 |
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Phar Lap: how a Melbourne Cup icon became a hero of the silver screen
Jay Hovdey | Nov 6, 2023 |

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