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Horse Race | Parent Child Relationship
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Best Performance in a Feature Film Comedy or Drama Leading Young Actress | 2006 | Dakota
Best Actor | 2006 | Kurt
Favorite Movie Actress | 2006 | Dakota
Best Family Film Live Action | 2006
Best Sports Movie | 2006
Best Family Feature Film Drama | 2006
Kurt Russell bought Dakota Fanning a real Palamino horse, which she named Goldie.
The movie was loosely inspired by the story of the mare Mariah's Storm. She was a promising filly, who was being pointed towards the Breeder's Cup Juvenile Fillies in 1993, but then broke her cannon bone. She recovered, and later won some graded races. She started in the 1995 Breeder's Cup Distaff, and finished ninth. She was owned by Thunderhead Farms, and trained by Don Von Hemel. She's now known mostly for being the dam of Giant's Causeway.
Dakota Fanning worked on three other major projects at the same time as this film. They were War of the Worlds (2005), Hide and Seek (2005), and Nine Lives (2005).
Kurt Russell filmed this simultaneously with Sky High (2005). He later said it was too taxing traveling back and forth between sets and different characters quickly, and probably would not allow himself to do that again.
The role of Cale Crane was originally written for a boy. The role was changed specifically so that Dakota Fanning could play it. (The first script that was sent to Fanning actually had the word "boy" in the character description.)
"[last lines] Cale Crane: You are a great champion. When you ran, the ground shook, the sky opened and mere mortals parted. Parted the way to victory, where you'll meet me in the winner's circle, where I'll put a blanket of flowers on your back."
"Ben Crane: Once upon a time there was a noble king. He lived in a beautiful castle overlooking green fields. An evil storm cast darkness over his castle, and before he knew it, dark knights had begun to take away his kingdom, one piece at a time. But our king was a warrior, and he knew if he could find his magic horse he could restore the kingdom to greatness. He was not like most kings. He was quiet and kind. Everyone loved the king which he may not have known. He searched and searched and finally rescued his horse from a raging river. But by the time he'd freed his horse, his kingdom was gone and he had given up. But the horse knew better than he. The horse took him over mountain ranges and across raging rivers. When it finally looked like they would die the horse asked him to trust him. The King didn't know if the horse had really spoken to him or he just hadn't had anything to eat in a few days. Not soon after the horse tried to climb a mountain so steep that the king was sure it would be their deaths. But the horse reached the top. And at the top, they found his kingdom, restored. All those who loved him greeted he king with pie and coffee."
