The documentary film “Buck” is creating a stir in and beyond the horse industry as a must-see film this summer. It won a Sundance audience award this year and will open on Friday in New York and Los Angeles, 

Buck Brannaman, a former rodeo perfomer who lived a rough life as a child and used those experiences to help shape him as a horse trainer, was one of the primary people that the lead role in “The Horse Whisperer” was based on. He now conducts clinics across the U.S. featuring his natural horsemanship style to training.

The movie will open June 24 in Charlotte, N.C. I full list of movie openings can be found on the film’s Facebook page. There is also a place where you can request that the film be shown in your area.

The film is receiving several good reviews, including from the Los Angeles Times who wrote, “The film is deeply moving yet never maudlin in telling this hard-knocks-but-hope-infused story.” It got a few not-so-great ones too, such as “much of the movie — too much of it — is just Buck in the corral, riding, working with ropes and flags, conditioning a horse to behave” from the Orlando Sentinel.

Leading quarter horse sire of performance horses, Barpassers Image, died at age 27.
Born in 1984, by Barpasser and out of Tee Command, he was a Superior western pleasure horse with wins at the Texas Classic Futurity and the Tom Powers Futurity in 1986, and was a Top 10 finisher at the World Show in 1988.
Some of his most noted offspring include Invitation Only, Barpassers Cody, and Barpassers Glow.

Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom has been taken out of training for at least two weeks after veterinarians found a “fissure” — a crack at the top of his cannon bone — on his left hind leg, the Daily Racing Form reports. He is expected to race later this year. The injury is believed to have occurred when he stumbled at the start of the Belmont Stakes.