inaccurate and ridiculous

ktmclark92

This show is horrendously inaccurate. Yeah, the characters are engaging and interesting, and yeah the acting is decently okay. But the people who created this show know nothing about horse racing. For one thing, the first horse ridden by Kris at Raintree - Oklahoma Crude - is chestnut with a white blaze. In a later episode, the same horse makes an appearance but has no facial markings whatsoever. Kris herself is a fantastic representation of how inaccurate the show is - she is too tall and too heavy to feasibly become a jockey. She is not fat or overweight by any means, but jockeys are required to weigh around or less than one hundred pounds.

Wildfire too is a very inaccurate, poorly designed picture of a racehorse. He was sold to the Camp LaGrange program for losing too many races on the track, which would put his age at about three when he got there. To be as well reconditioned as a pleasure horse as he was in the show, he would have had to been at Camp LaGrange for at least a year. Which means that by the time Kris arrives, stays, and leaves with him he would be at least four years old, but most likely five or six. However, they mention multiple times in the show that he is a three-year-old, which is completely impossible because thoroughbreds don't start racing until they are two and he is supposed to have lost multiple races.

Raintree's racing silks are also exceptionally false. In the first race, Kris wore orange and yellow. In the second race, she wore solid yellow. In the third, she wore sky blue and in the fourth they were purple and white. Barns do not change their colors that easily. For a racing barn to change its silks it requires applying to the Jockey Club, and it is an expensive process. Because of the financial difficulties frequently mentioned by Raintree's owners, it is impossible for them to have changed their barn colors that many times in such a short period. It is also pointless.

Honestly, I enjoy the show but it is so ridiculous that it gets infuriating each time.

score 2/10

ktmclark92 9 July 2011

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