Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story Page #4

Her leg looks pretty good.

They make their way around the first

turn and head onto the backstretch.

- Come on, Sonya.

- Come on, Sonador!

Every step. Come on.

Running in fourth is Sonador.

And Sonador's now

on the move on the outside.

Then we have back in fifth,

All For Nothing.

Come on, baby.

Come on, Mike,

change your lead now.

They make their way around the far turn.

- Go!

- Come on, girl.

On the inside comes

Obvious Favorite.

Come on, Sonya,

only three furlongs to go now.

She's coming up!

Major Easy and Obvious Favorite...

Show her the stick now.

Get her out of there.

Come on, girl!

Major Easy and Obvious Favorite

come to the wire together.

Come on, Sonya.

Major Easy and Obvious Favorite...

- Third!

- Third.

That's great.

Minute 13 seconds.

Little slow but it's the beginning.

If Mike wouldn't have been boxed in,

I think she would've won, sir.

Third place. So, what'd she get?

$1,100.

- Sonador. Ben Crane?

- Yeah.

Claimed.

- What? You got to be kidding me.

- Claimed?

- Wait a second. Hang on.

- You said she wouldn't get claimed.

- Cale, listen to me.

- What was the tag?

How much did you get for her?

15,000.

You just sold Sonador.

I don't believe this.

Cale...

I wasn't trying to sell Sonya.

Out of 100 horses

that could have been claimed,

you know how many got claimed?

Two.

Do you understand

that you got to claim the horse

before the race is even run?

I figured there's no way

anybody'd take a chance

on a filly that'd already

broken her leg.

I guess there was some chance.

She's gone.

She was a good horse, Cale.

I'm going to miss her, too.

Please don't treat me

like a little kid.

You were trying to get

some of your money back.

I get it. It's business.

That's right, it is.

But I wasn't trying to sell Sonya, OK?

You lied to me.

You said I'd always have Sonador.

You stood right there and said it.

You raced her and she got claimed.

Well, everything doesn't end up

the way you want it to.

She wasn't for sale.

Every racehorse everywhere

in the world, right now, is for sale.

Get that.

She wasnt just some racehorse.

She was our horse.

I told Pat I would work

the dinner shift tonight.

You said you'd go

to Cale's school for Parents' Night.

Eight o'clock. I got it.

All right.

Have a good time.

"My shirt was wet

and it smelled like French toast."

"So even though I threw up, I was happy

my dad took me to the firehouse."

"The end."

Thank you, Miss Richardson.

Thank you.

- Ben Crane.

- Yes, ma'am.

I'd love you to read Cale's story.

It's very inventive.

It's right there in the blue folder.

Come on up.

"Once upon a time

there was a noble king."

"He lived in a beautiful castle

overlooking green fields."

"An evil storm cast darkness

over his castle."

"And before he knew it,

dark knights had begun

to take away his kingdom

one piece at a time."

"But our king was a warrior and he knew

that if he could find his magic horse,

he could restore the kingdom

to greatness."

"He was not like most kings.

He was quiet and kind."

"Everyone loved the king,

which he may not have known."

"He searched and searched and finally

rescued his horse from a raging river."

"But by the time

he'd freed his horse,

his kingdom was gone

and he had given up."

"But the horse knew better than he."

"The horse took him over mountain ranges

and across raging rivers."

"When it finally looked like they would

die, the horse asked him to trust him."

"The king didn't know if the horse

had really spoken to him

or he just hadn't had anything to eat

in a few days."

"Not soon after, the horse attempted

to climb a mountain so steep

the king was sure

it would be their deaths."

"But the horse reached the top."

"And at the top,

they found his kingdom restored."

"All those who loved him

greeted the king with pie and coffee."

"By Cale Crane."

- Can we keep these?

- Yes.

I read your story tonight at school.

The stupid one about the king?

Yeah, the stupid king.

I made mistakes, Cale.

I'm sorry.

So you like the stupid king?

Yeah, I like the stupid king.

I love the stupid king.

He loves you, too.

Ben, there's some guy here

to see you.

Cale.

I got Pop a new goat.

Want to pull him out of the trailer?

Thanks a lot.

Sonya! Sonya!

You came home!

I'm so glad you're back.

How'd you get her back?

It wasnt just me.

Pops helped out. Too.

I did?

We're both out of coffee for a while.

All right,

I got all the paperwork here.

Cale, we put 51 percent

of Sonador in your name.

So from here on out,

you make all the decisions.

Don't worry, you'll have 39 percent.

Balon, you and Manny

can split the other ten, huh?

What are you saying, Ben?

Well, I'm saying as soon

as she signs this paper,

the new owner of Sonador

is Cale Crane.

Welcome to the race business.

Congratulations.

You work for her now.

OK, boss...

- Me?

...what's it going to be?

- Come on.

- Let's go, seorita. Come on.

Should I warm her up and then push her

a little for three furlongs? Maybe four?

You want us to blow her out, right?

Then we can start to build her up.

Yeah. Let's just blow her out.

Appreciate it, Bob.

If anything comes up,

you let me know, huh? All right. 'Night.

Hey...

- You're up kind of late.

- Been reading all of Sonya's records.

She won over 200,000

in graded company.

Oh, yeah, I know.

Qualifies her for a lot of stakes races.

I looked through the conditions book.

Well, I'm sure

you'll figure something out.

I want you to help me.

I want you to help me train her.

I see.

Well, you'd be getting a trainer.

What is it I'd be getting?

Ten percent.

- 20.

- 15.

- Done.

- Sign here.

Straight across. Not too tight.

That's it. There you go.

Come on, girl. Come on.

Get up. Let's go.

She look good?

- All right, here we go.

- Hello.

I want to thank everyone for coming.

I've scouted all of Sonador's

possible races

and picked one I know she can win.

Really?

And when is this race?

Saturday, October 29th.

Gotten the best jockey.

His name is Manolin Vallarta.

Well, I'm Manolin Vallarta.

Great idea.

You once told me you were the greatest

jockey in the world and I believe you.

Thank you, Cale.

Thank you, but I can't. I'm not ready.

I'm...

Fat and I got to slim down.

Right, Manny?

October 29th is the same day

as the Breeders' Cup Championship,

isn't it?

Biggest day in racing.

Breeders' Cup is eight races

worth 14 million dollars?

I don't think you want to run in a race

on the same day as the Breeders' Cup.

You're right. We shouldn't run in a race

the same day as the Breeders' Cup.

That's why we're going to run

in the Breeders' Cup.

That's ambitious.

You cant just show up

with your horse at the Breeders' Cup

and say "I'm here.

I want to run in the Classic."

- It doesn't work that way.

- Be nice if it did.

Do you know

what the selection process is?

Fourteen horses.

First seven are graded stakes wins,

points, I don't know.

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