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Sat May 9 13:58:12 AEST 2020

Think they might have skipped Red Cardinal's Cup preparation. 😉

On Sat, 9 May 2020 at 13:41, ANDREW RICHMAN <andrew1richman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We finally saw Ride Like A Girl last night on Foxtel and really enjoyed it.
>
> My wife thought she read that they cut some of the D Weir scenes out - is
> that true? and if so is it possible to see the original movie I wonder.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew Richman
>
>
>
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 at 15:48, nick.aubrey <nick.aubrey at twonix.com> wrote:
>
>> I went and saw RLAG last week with my partner Sharyn  and we were both
>> impressed with the movie from a number of angles.... acting,
>> cinematography, closeness to actual storyline but most of all
>> characterisation. I think Stevie stole the show from Michelle and his
>> resemblance to himself was uncanny 😁
>> Now i know Darren Weir has lost the respect of all in the racing industry
>> (for good reason) but he still came across as a very decent bloke who gave
>> Stevie his big break and hence started the association between POP and
>> Michelle. IMHO a must see Aussie movie of international standard.
>>
>> AN
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent on the go with Vodafone
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: "L.B.Loveday" <lloveday at ozemail.com.au>
>> Date: 6/10/19 8:32 am (GMT+10:00)
>> To: racing at ausrace.com
>> Subject: [AusRace] (no subject)
>>
>> High-profile racing women dug deep to make Payne film a winner
>>
>> Katie Page and Gai Waterhouse were among the silent backers determined to
>> turn Michelle Payne bio-pic Ride Like A Girl into a hit movie
>>
>> *Annette Sharp*, Sydney Confidential, The Sunday Telegraph
>>
>> Subscriber only
>>
>> |
>>
>> High-profile women in horseracing — and keen to promote an Australian
>> legend and women in sport — are among the silent backers of popular new
>> Australian feature film, Ride Like A Girl. Businesswoman Katie Page, the
>> CEO of Harvey Norman, co-founder of yearling sales Magic Millions and wife
>> of Gerry Harvey said she couldn’t think of a better place to put her money
>> than into a locally made film that would help make a legend of Melbourne
>> Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne.
>>
>> “What an extraordinary movie and an extraordinary story,” she said,
>> confirming she was quick to join a syndicate of silent backers who tipped
>> money into the project after filmmaker and actor Rachel Griffiths and her
>> co-producers started passing the cap around after acquiring the rights to
>> Payne’s book following Payne’s historic Melbourne Cup victory on Pirates Of
>> Penzance in 2015.
>>
>>
>>
>> Teresa Palmer as Michelle Payne in a scene from Ride Like A Girl.
>>
>> Page is dedicated to promoting women in sport and in racing and created a
>> sponsorship program that set aside 10 $5000 sponsorships for women’s
>> sporting clubs.
>>
>> Another racing pioneer said to have opened her private chequebook to
>> ensure Michelle Payne’s is Australian Turf Club vice-chair Julia Ritchie.
>>
>> Owner and trainer Ritchie was the first female board member on the AJC
>> board and her appointment to the ATC chair in 2014 shook the foundations of
>> the male-dominated club when she was voted in.
>>
>> Ritchie, the daughter of trainer Bill Ritchie of Bangaloe Stud and owner
>> of Golden Slipper winner Vancouver, may have been playing coy about her
>> investment yesterday and couldn’t be reached for comment.
>>
>> Harvey Norman CEO Katie Page has seen the movie twice.
>>
>> Ritchie’s love of film stretches back through the years to when she
>> worked in the film industry which is where she met Griffiths who still
>> calls Ritchie a close friend.
>>
>> Another outspoken supporter of the film is Australian trainer Gai
>> Waterhouse.
>>
>> Waterhouse, who attended a glamorous preview of the film at the Orpheum
>> Theatre two weeks ago with a group of eight including husband Robbie, son
>> Tom and jockey Hugh Bowman, said she too has a keen interest in the film.
>>
>> “A couple of my strappers are in the movie,” she said on Friday,
>> confirming she is behind the project and behind Payne, who has ridden for
>> her.
>>
>> “I think they needed quite a lot of extras for it, so my strappers
>> pitched in to lend a hand.”
>>
>> Payne too is affiliated with the Waterhouses through racing — and Robbie
>> Waterhouse has the sense Gai may have given Payne some excellent advice
>> about how to win during the women’s work together.
>>
>>
>>
>> Trainer Gai Waterhouse. Picture: AAP
>>
>> Vice-chair of the ATC Julia Ritchie.
>>
>> “Gai told her to get low in the saddle,” said Robbie, advice that might
>> have helped her bring home the Cup in 2015.
>>
>> “Michelle has been one of my jockeys on a number of occasions,” said Gai.
>> “She rode for me. How can you not love this story — it’s a wonderful story.”
>>
>> Waterhouse proclaimed the racing scenes in Ride Like A Girl to be “second
>> to none” — high praise from the Tulloch Lodge trainer, regarded as the
>> leading female force in the game.
>>
>> “A good film leaves you with a good feeling and this certainly did,” she
>> said.
>>
>> Page said she’d seen the movie twice and had left crying both times.
>>
>> “I cry every time I see it and when I saw it, on both occasions, when
>> Michelle Payne’s character crosses the line everyone in the cinema got up
>> on their feet and cheered. It’s just so moving.
>> Even Gerry was moved. And you know Gerry…” she added, an eye-roll implied.
>>
>> Producers were looking to raise $5 million from the private sector to get
>> the low-budget feature made.
>>
>> Ride LIke A Girl director Rachel Griffiths. Picture: Getty
>>
>> Further funding came from Screen Australia via its Gender Matters:
>> Brilliant Stories program, an initiative which gets behind women’s stories
>> and women working in the industry. To win the private backing of women in
>> business, was an added coup.
>>
>> Griffiths and producer Susie Montague are also believed to have invested
>> in the movie.
>>
>> At this stage it looks to have been money well spent, with Ride Like A
>> Girl on its way to becoming the highest grossing Australian film of the
>> year, with almost $3 million taken at the box office last week.
>>
>>
>>
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