"Inspired by a true story" is part of the title or just a comment? Anyway, it's a nice movie if you take it for what it is: a nice, little, simple story for children, a "follow your dreams" story, where everything is possible and it all goes well, as if we were really to believe that if you just follow your dream someone will give you 120.000 dollars so it can come true! Come on! Anyway, the film is nice because I like Kurt Russell enough and because Dakota Fanning (here eleven years old) is amazing. They are father and daughter Ben and Cale Crane, and as it often happens in these films they're broke. A racehorse breaks a leg and is about to be killed but Cale doesn't want , so Ben saves the mare and takes her instead of the money he deserves for his job at that place, whatever it was, I don't remember. Cale bonds with Sonya, short of Soñador, and takes it badly when Ben sells the mare. So badly that Ben uses their last money to buy it back and everyone is happy because dreams and a little girl's smile are everything that matters. I should try saying that to the Revenue demanding taxes, or to the banks.
Now Cale has her horse, she wakes up early every day to go to her, to 'train' her. Cale makes up her mind to have Sonya race again, in the biggest race of all, where they need 120.000 dollars to enter. Easily, they go to meet Prince Sadir (Oded Fehr) and ask him to sponsor Sonya, and of course he can't resist the little girl's blue eyes and accepts; Sonya is quoted 80 to 1 but wins nonetheless. Happy ending! And here it ends, just like that.
To think that people kill racehorses that break a leg or an ankle, they haven't seen this movie, huh? Well, as I said, it is to be considered for what it is, a movie for children. Otherwise it becomes a stupid, unrealistic, dangerous movie.
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