When the race begins, Stripes is unable to keep up with the other racehorses, and several other jockeys try to sabotage him including Ruffshodd. They then rush back to the farm, where Nolan, Chan, and Woodzie take Stripes and Tucker to the Kentucky Open. With Buzz and Scuzz's help, they rescue Sandy from the stables. Stripes, Tucker, Franny, and Goose agree to rescue Sandy. Refusing to allow Stripes to race, Sir Trenton and several Thoroughbreds ambush Stripes and Sandy at a creek as they are talking one night, kidnapping Sandy and threatening to hurt her if he races. Meanwhile, Franny reveals to Stripes that Tucker helped Nolan train the racehorse champions including Sir Trenton without getting any thanks, which encourages him to begin training. Realizing this, the farm animals lure Nolan into the farm to show him a table holding his past accomplishments and he changes his mind. Despite Chan's pleas, Nolan refuses to let her race with Stripes. Meanwhile, Stripes realizes he is a zebra after being told off by Pride's father, Sir Trenton, which severely discourages him. Then, Dalrymple sarcastically signs Stripes up to compete in the Kentucky Open competition. Though she is uninjured, Nolan chastises her. She does, despite Nolan's disapproval, but Stripes becomes scared by the horse-gate, and then gets hit in the face by flying dirt while racing, causing Chan to fall off. They are approached by Woodzie, a racetrack gambler and old friend of the family, who encourages Chan to sign her and Stripes up for a tryout race tomorrow. There, Chan is antagonized by her boss, Clara Dalrymple, for bringing Stripes to the racetrack, while Stripes meets a pair of horsefly brothers, Buzz and Scuzz.Īs night approaches, Chan, remembering her first ride on horseback with her mother, completes a lap around the racetrack with Stripes. The plan works, and Chan, with Nolan's reluctant approval, rides Stripes to Turfway Park. Stripes, in need of a rider, chooses Chan and convinces a new farm animal, a pelican named Goose, to sabotage Chan's motorcycle and Nolan's old pickup truck so that Chan can ride him to her workplace at Turfway Park. The following day, Tucker, having secretly watched Stripes, approaches him and suggests that he gets proper training first. Pride challenges Stripes to a racing match at an unofficial racetrack in the valley called the Blue Moon Races he accepts, but loses the race after losing his footing on a muddy turn and falling into the bushes. While talking to Sandy, he is approached by Trenton's Pride and Ruffshodd, Stripes' tormentors since childhood. Three years later, after racing the mailman, an adult Stripes meets a Lipizzaner mare named Sandy and develops a crush on her after losing to the mailman in their usual race. One day, he becomes convinced that he is destined for the nearby racetrack, the Kentucky Open, after watching a race, not realizing that he is a zebra and is not qualified to race. Stripes befriends the other farmyard animals, including rooster Reggie, Saanen goat Franny, and Shetland pony Tucker. Nolan takes the zebra home to his farm and leaves it under the care of his daughter, Channing "Chan" Walsh, who names him "Stripes". The foal is rescued by widower Nolan Walsh, a former Thoroughbred-racehorse trainer who retired when his wife, Carolyn, a jockey, died in a racing accident years ago. Racing Stripes was released on DVD and VHS on by Roadshow Entertainment and Warner Home Video.ĭuring a thunderstorm, a traveling circus accidentally leaves behind a baby zebra. The film received mixed reviews from critics and it earned $90 million.
It was filmed in Pietermaritzburg and Nottingham Road, South Africa. Emmet Walsh, with the vocal talents of Frankie Muniz, Mandy Moore, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jeff Foxworthy, Joshua Jackson, Joe Pantoliano, Michael Rosenbaum, Steve Harvey, David Spade, Snoop Dogg, Fred Dalton Thompson, Dustin Hoffman and Whoopi Goldberg Racing Stripes stars Hayden Panettiere, Bruce Greenwood, Wendie Malick and M. Believing he is a racehorse, Stripes dreams of training for and competing in the races. The film tells the story of Stripes, a circus zebra who is accidentally abandoned in Kentucky and raised on a farm next to a racing track. It was released theatrically on Januby Summit Entertainment and Warner Bros. McDonnell, based on a script written by David Schmidt, Steven P. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Lloyd Phillips and Edward L. Racing Stripes is a 2005 American sports comedy-drama family film directed by Frederik Du Chau. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) Source
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