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A fast-moving comedy with Billy Fury, who plays himself in the film. The story reveals his great love of animals, and it features his own racehorse, Anselmo. Also featured are several of Billy's own dogs. Watch for the dances! [IMDb] "The first horse racing scene in the movie is filmed at Great Yarmouth racecourse, just down the road from the Royal Aquarium Theatre and in the featured race Fury's horse Armitage finishes third at longs odds. Yarmouth racecourse looks a lot different now but the old stands at the track in the sixties looked very quaint. The second race in the film shows Fury's horse Anselmo finishing fourth in the 1964 Derby at Epsom racecourse which is actually a true sequence of events. Fury did in fact own Anselmo and the horse was trained by Lester Piggot's father Keith and ridden by leading 18 year old apprentice Paul Cook who was having his first ride in the Classic. The 15/8 favourite Santa Claus won the race, ridden by fifty year old Australian jockey Scobie Beasley but Anselmo belied his odds to finish a close up fourth. Apparently Billy Fury was very excited in the paddock before the race and was smoking incessantly near the Queen, something not allowed at the time. The Derby race in the film features footage of the actual 1964 race mixed with footage of Fury and his entourage in the stands and the whole sequence works very well." - Martin Vinnie Smith (https://www.britishhorseracingmovies.uk/ive-gotta-horse)
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