Secretariat - The movie

Racing Stripes. That was the best racing movie ever, and so realistic at that. (Just kidding - I haven't completely lost what's left of my mind.)

I enjoyed all of Phar Lap, Champions, and Seabiscuit. I suppose they all took some liberties with the facts (it would be impossible to turn events that ran for several years into a couple of hours of movie time otherwise), but I thought they were a realistic enough portrayal. At least they didn't take a real event and use it as a backdrop for a wholly fictitious and silly story (like Titanic, for instance), and racing movies are so rare that I'll take what I can get.

The Sea Cottage movie is intruiguing, but given the pathetically low profile which racing enjoys in the SA consciousness these days I reckon you're more likely to get someone making a movie about a pet dog named Fleabag who lived in Benoni in the 1960s.(td)

When is Secretariat scheduled for release in South Africa?

We had another Secretariat thread this morning which I did a link to including this thread, and gather the movie has been released in SA

Sugahorse - according to Ster Kinekor and New Metro websites it's due for release on 14 Jan, but some of my friends up in Joburg have already been to see it, so I'm a bit confused !

www.sterkinekor.com/site.php

www.numetro.co.za/movie/1487/

Will nip down to the local robot and pick one up