Goodness! I hadn't heard of Rachael Blackmore, so this makes me exceedingly happy.
I'm glad! There have been women who trained winners since the '80's, but she was the first jockey.
I read the book National Velvet long before I could understand it (the fairy-tale winning-the-race thread is entangled with all sorts of oddities and stark realities), but I've yet to see the movie.
I like the movie very much (I came to the book afterward. My grandparents' house had some kind of mid-century paperback which I believe by now has lost at least one of its covers. I meant to hunt it up last night to re-read before bed, but instead I wound up re-reading Eloise Jarvis McGraw's Sawdust in His Shoes (1950), which was in the room I was sleeping in). It was made at MGM, but it has odd corners, too. Anne Revere is responsible for some of them, but so is Elizabeth Taylor. It was my formative image of Mickey Rooney.
What a delightful all-but-sleepover!
I imagine one of these nights we will try for the full experience, but pizza and movie and ice cream and late-night collection by other parents worked very well. No one melted, adults included.
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I'm glad! There have been women who trained winners since the '80's, but she was the first jockey.
I read the book National Velvet long before I could understand it (the fairy-tale winning-the-race thread is entangled with all sorts of oddities and stark realities), but I've yet to see the movie.
I like the movie very much (I came to the book afterward. My grandparents' house had some kind of mid-century paperback which I believe by now has lost at least one of its covers. I meant to hunt it up last night to re-read before bed, but instead I wound up re-reading Eloise Jarvis McGraw's Sawdust in His Shoes (1950), which was in the room I was sleeping in). It was made at MGM, but it has odd corners, too. Anne Revere is responsible for some of them, but so is Elizabeth Taylor. It was my formative image of Mickey Rooney.
What a delightful all-but-sleepover!
I imagine one of these nights we will try for the full experience, but pizza and movie and ice cream and late-night collection by other parents worked very well. No one melted, adults included.