Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story Page #2

Here's six.

Six. Take it or leave it.

I'll leave it. We agreed on nine.

- Wait for a check.

- I'm not waiting.

Please put that horse down!

Dan. Dan, wait.

I'll take the 6,000 and the horse.

$6,000 and a dead horse

and I never hear from you again?

- That's right.

- Take your money.

Sedate her, Dan.

Put her down heavy for the night.

It'll cost you 400

to dispose of her body.

Hook up a trailer.

You got a hard head,

just like your old man.

Go out to the truck.

Living in that horse farm

with no horses.

Manny, take her out to the truck.

Delusional. It's a disease with you

Cranes. Get out before it rubs off.

Manny. Go get the old man.

Tell him it's an emergency.

Balon, need the heavy winch and the tow

and easy sling to get her in this stall.

- OK, where's that?

- It's in the back stall there.

Oh, OK, I got it.

Where have you been?

God, I've been so worried. Honey.

- What's going on?

- I had a horse go down.

Oh, my God.

- Anything else, boss?

- Give Balon a hand, will you?

What can you geniuses be calling

an emergency at night in the rain?

This about a horse?

Good night.

I never ask you for anything.

I haven't heard from you in months.

That's why your business is so great.

I got a filly in there with

a broken cannon bone, Pop.

Thoroughbred?

Racer?

Put her down.

You had a horse

with a shattered cannon bone once.

You harnessed it up, the leg healed

and that horse was fine.

That was a long time ago.

You were just a little boy, Benjamin.

But I remember it. It worked.

He was an old lead pony.

Healed just enough to walk around

for a few more years

before I finally put him down.

Which is what you'd do

if you had any sense at all.

Let's get her in the stall.

- Cale.

- I need to help them.

Cale, I'm spending the night with her.

You go on inside with Mom.

- All right.

- Right up there.

Get up on higher.

Let's hook it up. Come on.

Was it a hard fall?

Hard enough. She didn't get bumped

or anything. She just went down.

That's the one from the track.

And my X-rays confirm it.

It's a spiral fracture

of the cannon bone.

But it is nondisplaced.

She'll never race again?

No, honey.

But she might walk again.

There's a chance.

It's up to her.

Try and keep her calm.

Stable rest.

That cast I put on her should hold.

We'll go really easy on her.

- Let's stay close on this.

- You got it.

All right,

let's pull all the harness stuff.

The straps, pulley in the tack room.

Ben, when Mr. Palmer fired you,

us yesterday, well...

We all don't have no jobs.

I'm sorry, guys. I forgot. Here.

There's 1,000 each.

What's wrong?

Well, we train racehorses, right?

She's not going

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