ORPHANED

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>In the tradition of National</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Velvet the 1944 film starring Mickey</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Rooney and a young horse-crazy</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>girl Elizabeth Taylor Keegan tells</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>the story of Dean Hostler the fender</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>repair guy who surprisingly wins the</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>auction at the Longacres horse sale</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>for a thoroughbred filly orphaned</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>at birth for his son Ricky's 17th</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>birthday. When Dean is hours late</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>for the family dinner party however</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Lorraine refuses to let him in. The</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Nashua trailer that was their home is</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>repossessed and Dean is stuck sleeping</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>in a barn with a horse he is unable</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>to return. Lorraine is beside herself</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>and worried that Ricky will once</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>again be held back in school because</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>of the effect this marital separation</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>will have on his Attention Deficit</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Disorder. Under orders from his wife</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>not to let Ricky ever see this horse</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>however Dean discovers that his</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>not yet divorced wife is now seeing</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>another man. And that is only one</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>of her secrets the darkest being the</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>truth about who is Ricky's real father.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Meantime Dean finds a stall for Orphan</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>on the backside of the Longacres</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>racetrack and Ricky finds his way to</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Orphan where he learns to ride and</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>is licensed as an apprentice jockey</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>who can ride Orphan on a real track. </span></p>