Dark Horse

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Dark Horse is a documentary directed by British filmmaker Louise Osmond. The film premiered at Sundance last year where it won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.

Set in a former mining village in Wales, DARK HORSE is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men’s club who decide to take on the elite ‘sport of kings’ and breed themselves a racehorse. Raised on a slagheap allotment, their foal grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in the land, before suffering a near fatal accident. Nursed back to health by the love of his owners – for whom he’s become a source of inspiration and hope – he makes a remarkable recovery, returning to the track for a heart-stopping comeback.

“Our characters were a gift,” Osmond says, “but bringing their story to life was an adventure all of its own. All that remained of the story was a few snatched pieces of home movie, some newspaper cuttings and a handful of photographs. Plus our central character was a horse – a non-speaking star in the central role. We knew we needed some level of dramatization and the minute we met Dream we knew the solution was simply for Dream to play himself.”