She does, despite Nolan's disapproval stemming from his wife's death in a racing accident six years ago, which discouraged him to continue training horses ever since, but Stripes has a major meltdown after being easily scared by the horse-gate like all the other horses the next morning at the tryouts. Emmet Walsh), a racetrack gambler and old friend of the family, who encourages Channing to sign her and Stripes up for a tryout race tomorrow. There, Channing is antagonized by her boss, Clara Dalrymple ( Wendie Malick), for bringing Stripes to the racetrack, while Stripes meets a pair of horse-fly brothers, Buzz and Scuzz ( Steve Harvey and David Spade).Īs night approaches, Channing, remembering her first ride on horseback with her mother, Carolyn, completes a lap around the track with Stripes. The plan works, and Channing, with Nolan's reluctant approval, rides Stripes to Turfway Park. Stripes, in need of a rider, chooses 16-year-old Channing and convinces a new farm animal, a pelican named Goose ( Joe Pantoliano), to sabotage Channing's motorcycle and Old Blue, Nolan's old pickup truck, so that Channing 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 a secret racetrack in the woods called the Blue Moon Races he accepts, but loses the race. While talking to Sandy, he is approached by Pride ( Joshua Jackson) and Ruffshodd ( Michael Rosenbaum), Stripes' tormentors since childhood while Channing's bloodhound, Lightning ( Snoop Dogg) is lazy and talks while he rests. Three years later, after racing the mailman again, an adult Stripes ( Frankie Muniz) meets an Arabian filly named Sandy ( Mandy Moore) and develops a crush on her after losing to the mailman in their usual race. Two foals named Trenton's Pride (Kyle Alcazar) and Ruffshodd (Frankie Ryan Manriquez) decide to race Stripes until they are stopped by Pride's father, three-time Kentucky Open champion, Sir Trenton ( Fred Dalton Thompson). The next day, Stripes soon becomes convinced that he is destined for the nearby racetrack, Turfway Park, not realizing that he is not a horse, but a zebra and is disqualified to race. He meets a Shetland pony named Tucker ( Dustin Hoffman) a Saanen goat named Franny ( Whoopi Goldberg) and a rooster named Reggie ( Jeff Foxworthy). The foal is rescued by widower and former racehorse trainer Nolan Walsh ( Bruce Greenwood), and is taken to his farm where his 13-year-old daughter, Channing ( Hayden Panettiere) names him Stripes. Racing Stripes was released on DVD and VHS on May 10, 2005, by Warner Home Video.ĭuring a thunderstorm, a traveling circus, Circus Sarano, accidentally leaves behind a baby plains zebra ( Jansen Panettiere) after replacing a flat tire. The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics and it earned $90 million. Emmet Walsh, with the vocal and voice 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. The film 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 plains zebra who is accidentally abandoned in Kentucky and raised on a farm next to a racing track. It was released theatrically on January 14, 2005, by 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 family film directed by Frederik Du Chau.

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