Day 20- Your
favorite horse show
Okay
so I’m sure this actually is supposed to be about a “Horse Show” where you
bring your horse and dress up fancy and spend hundreds of dollars for a 95 cent
ribbon. But since I’m not really a big show person I am going to write about my
favorite show about horses!
I
am a sucker for tv shows and movies that have horses in them. I get super
depressed when the horse gets hurt or dies. I haven’t even watched the last
half of Dances with Wolves in forever because I can’t bare to watch Cisco
getting shot, and The first episode of “the Walking Dead”…wow, I felt like I
was getting ripped to shreds by zombies! Sadly there aren’t a whole bunch of
current tvshows with horses as one of the main caracters, but thankfully
Netflix is filled with great shows I can watch instantly!
First
on my list is Animal Planets show “Jockeys”. A lot of horse people will bash me
for this but I love horse racing. It’s exciting. Watching thoroughbreds running is so
beautiful. This show mostly focuses on the big time Jockeys at Santa Anita,
like Mike Smith, Aaron Gryder, Joe Talamo, Corey Nakatani, and Jon Court to
name a few. Zenyatta was featured a lot in season one too. I loved the show too
because it shows a lot of the behind the scenes of a race track. As some may
know, my dear sweet Piney-boy raced a couple of times at Santa Anita, he broke
his maiden there in his second race and won over $11,000. Of course he never
won that kind of purse in a race ever again…but...that’s not important ;-) and
he never had any big shot jockeys ride him, but he raced on the same track that
Seabisquit once raced on, and many other famous horses. The same announcer that
called his races called the races on the show. It’s just fun to see that side
of horse racing.
Second
on my list. Heartland. It’s a Canadian show about a girl who trains horses.
While some of it is super cheesy, and horse people sit there rolling their eyes
and saying “YEAH RIGHT” it is a fairly well written show and features all types
of horses, with different behavioral problems that she manages to fix durring
the course of a show. I just really like the show. Sadly Netflix only goes up
until the 3rd season…but I have been hounding my parents in Canada
to pick up the rest of the seasons on DVD for me. And I just adore the opening
credits.
Third
favorite show is SUPER CHEESY. Like really. Wildfire, was a ABC Family show
from a few years back. Which features a girl who is fresh out of juvi. She had
worked with a retired racehorse when she was locked up and they have a special
bond. She gets released from jail, and starts working at a thoroughbred farm.
Wildfire, the horse she bonded with gets sent to an auction, and then the girl
goes and steals him. Longstory short the horse ends up at the thoroughbred farm
and wouldn’t you know it, is an amazing racehorse even though he once sucked at
it. It’s just a show that you can watch lots of pretty horses and have fun
saying “yeah right”. My favorite part was when Wildfire was having trouble on
the track so they put him into Dressage training to help him out…. Ummm what? I often like charcters best in the first episode. This is very true for this show. They got cheesier as the episodes went on.
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