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Walt Disney’s ‘Tattooed Police Horse’ Blends Dramawith Great American Sport
Walt Disney’s newest Technicolor featurette, “The Tattooed Police Horse,” is a captivating mixture of heartwarming outdoor drama and one of America’s oldest and fastest growing sports, harness racing.
The story is about a trotting horse who is banned from racing for breaking into a gallop just before crossing the finish line but who becomes a champion when he is taught discipline by the Boston Mounted Police Force. Producer-director Larry Lansburgh worked closely with the Harness Racing Institute in depicting trotting authentically.
The sport of harness racing, with all its pomp and pageantry, is almost as old as the Union. The first race against time on record by an American trotter was in Harlem, New York, in 1806.
Almost all American race horses owe their beginnings to the thoroughbred Messenger, brought to Virginia from England in 1788. His thoroughbred descendants include nearly every horse bred specifically for trotting.
In 1849, a third-generation descendant of Messenger, named Hambletonian, was foaled. He sired 1,331 sons and daughters between 1851 and 1875, and became the greatest sire of harness horses in history. Nearly all of the 20,000 or more trotters and pacers that raced during 1963 can-be traced in an
cestry to Hambletonian.
Major events came fast after Hambletonian. The two-wheeled sulky was developed and refined. The time of two minutes, thirty seconds for the mile was established in 1879 as a requirement for registration of a standard-bred horse. In 1892 the bicycle tire dramatically replaced the high, hard wheels on the sulky.
The sport first reached its great popularity in the late Nineteenth century, when the fabulous Dan Patch captured the imaginations of racing-minded Americans.
Harness racing went out of vogue during the Twenties and Thirties, but, with the innovation of an automobile-mounted starting gate in 1946, it rapidly became popular again.
The even and fast starts streamlined harness racing and made betting legal. There are now fifty-four pari-mutual meetings a year, an annual attendance of 16 million, and wagering up to $900 million.
Walt Disney’s “The Tattooed Horse” is a Technicolor featurette and was produced and directed by Larry Lansburgh for Disney. Keith Andes narrated the Buena Vista release.
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