ANNAPOLIS, MD (May 1, 2012) \u2013 The Maryland Horse Industry Board (MHIB), a program of the Maryland Department of Agriculture, is sponsoring a free screening of the feature movie \u201cMisty\u201d to kick off the \u201cHorses in Cinema\u2014A Celebration of the Preakness\u201d film series at the American Film Institute (AFI) Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring on Saturday, May 12, at 11 a.m. The movie is part of a new eight horse-powered film series, which runs at AFI from May 12-17 and leads up to the Preakness Stakes on May 19. Such classics as \u201cNational Velvet,\u201d \u201cThe Black Stallion\u201d and \u2018The Red Pony\u201d will be shown as well as the popular movie, \u201cSecretariat.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe movie is dedicated to anyone who ever wanted a pony,\u201d said MHIB Chair Jim Steele. \u201cWe hope that many families will come and see \u2018Misty.\u2019 The Horse Board is proud to be part of this new series that honors film, horses, and the Preakness. We are also very pleased to be involved with such a great national organization as the American Film Institute.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMisty,\u201d filmed in 1961 and based on the children\u2019s novel by Marguerite Henry, was filmed in Maryland and Virginia and tells the story of two children who save their money to purchase the pony \u201cMisty\u201d at the Chincoteague Pony Penning Days. Horses from the Maryland-National Capitol Park Police unit will be stationed outside the theatre before the showing for movie fans to visit and pet.<\/p>\n
The idea for the film series emanated from the MHIB\u2019s Marketing Committee and is the brainchild of MHIB marketing committee member Jane Thery, who together with fellow MHIB marketing committee member, Karin DeFrancis, on behalf of the Maryland Jockey Club, and Ross Peddicord, executive director of the MHIB, turned the concept into reality, and are delighted and honored by the support of the AFI organization.<\/p>\n
President and COO of the Maryland Jockey Club Tom Chuckas, host to the Preakness Stakes, generously agreed to serve as the series\u2019 main sponsor.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are honored and delighted that the AFI is hosting this classic series of films that truly captures our love affair with this magnificent animal,\u201d Chuckas said. \u201cMaryland\u2019s fascination with horses touches four centuries, beginning with the establishment of the Maryland Jockey Club in 1743.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Preakness celebrates its 137th running on May 19 www.preakness.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ANNAPOLIS, MD (May 1, 2012) \u2013 The Maryland Horse Industry Board (MHIB), a program of the Maryland Department of Agriculture, is sponsoring a free screening of the feature movie \u201cMisty\u201d to kick off the \u201cHorses in Cinema\u2014A Celebration of the Preakness\u201d film series at the American Film Institute (AFI) Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-horseboard"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}