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Foolish Pleasure

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Film Identifier: F.2012-03-0906
Run Time
0h 4m 47s
Format
16mm
Color
Color
Sound
Mag Stripe
Date Produced
August 6 1976
Abstract

An interview with Foolish Pleasure’s assistant trainer John Nazareth on August 6, 1976, the day before the Golden Invitational Handicap was held at Arlington Park.

Description

This film opens with several shots of groom Frank Morris posing with Foolish Pleasure in a stable as WLS-TV Channel 7 reporter Mike Nolan observes. In the following scene, Nolan strolls outside the stable with Foolish Pleasure’s assistant trainer John Nazareth and he begins to interview Nazareth for his opinions concerning the following day’s race at Arlington Park. Nolan repetitively presses Nazareth to compare Foolish Pleasure with other horses, but Nazareth’s responses remain philosophically noncommittal. The film concludes with an exterior shot of Arlington Park’s sign with Foolish Pleasure’s name flashing beneath it.

Foolish Pleasure went on to win the $125,000 Golden Invitational Handicap which was the horse's final race.

Distributors
WLS-TV
Main Credits
Koza, Frank (is filmmaker)
Actors, Performers and Participants
Nazareth, John (is participant)
Related Place
Arlington Heights (represents)