The Secretariat

The best stories are the ones that are true. This could not be truer than with the story of The Secretariat. In 1973, housewife Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues decided to pin the last of her ailing father’s Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge on her precocious stallion. With the help of trainer Lucien Laurin, Chenery sets the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown in 25 years. In 1983, Chenery became the first woman elected as a member of The Jockey Club and has also served as a member of the judges' panel for the Dogwood Dominion Award.
I saw and liked Seabiscuit, but somehow, this movie was very moving in a very real and different way. I also appreciate the woman in a man's world aspect, which I never realised about the "legend" of the Secretariat.
The only thing that could ruin this movie is if you know anything about horse racing in the south, you know how the story ends, but again, there is something about this movie was very moving in a very real way. Maybe because of the gambling nature of the situation, in Seabuscuit they were looking for some sort of redemption, but in this film they have lost everything and there for, have the attitude that they have everything to gian, it's the 'hail mary' of all business strategies.