Anyone remember Klute from the late 80s.

Did Jane Fonda ride it?

Was it an american 1/4 horse that came to britian. Think 1 of Jack berrys sprinters beat it @ Haydock?. Out of sight if memory serves.

I remember the movie from the early 70s. Quite an eye opener at the time  for a youngster like myself.

It was the first race at an Evening meeting at HAYDOCK.

Ridden by it's trainer - a deluded bint called Lesley Bruce.

She claimed it was the, "fastest horse in the world".

Miss Bruce, subsequently, then claimed that KLUTE had got upset by something at Haydock - so they arranged a re-match with another of Jack Berry's sprinters, VALLDEMOSA - this time at CATTERICK.

VALLDEMOSA won by an unextended 8 lengths - and then won a Handicap next time out off just 58 - making KLUTE running to a rating of around 33 at Catterick  - at, a very generous, best.

When KLUTE was beaten, a conservative, 25 lengths at Haydock - SO CAREFUL (nickname Albert in Jack Berry's yard) was rated just 71 - making KLUTE running to a MINUS Rating

The BBC were daft enough to show the HAYDOCK Match/'race' live

butter up the @ss

Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland?

Xmoneyx. Brando was the butter man.

Last Tango in Paris...Brando and Maria Schneider, remember it being a very boring film.
Klute on the other hand was a brilliant film.

Anyone who went nightclubbing in Durham in the late 80s will never forget Klute

tbf So Careful won the Ayr Gold Cup beating Chaplins Club that season, so she was taking on a challenge.

Onlooker - are you sure about Valldemosa vs Klute?

Yep, you're right. Never doubt the oracle!!

grayhawk    01 Jul 18 20:00 
Anyone who went nightclubbing in Durham in the late 80s will never forget Klute

me

Posy: Great movie but how different a present day remake would be.We had some great movies at that time.

Bet you haven't been in many worse Willie

Still going strong but mainly a student gaff nowadays...

Funny how yer can remember hoss races from 30 years ago better than those from yesterday

Funny how yer can remember hoss races from 30 years ago better than those from yesterday

yes oldgit;in the early 1970s I worked a lot for Cinecenta and had free access to all 4 screens in their Panton Street cinema.Films I readily recall from that era are Deliverance,Straw Dogs,Five Easy Pieces, Chinatown,10 Rillington Place and Z.

you can say that again geoff m

Jul 1, 2018 -- 8:00PM, grayhawk wrote:

Anyone who went nightclubbing in Durham in the late 80s will never forget Klute

Late 80s? Was still there more than 10 years later. Think it's still there now though can't guarantee what the name is.

Earlier in thread...

OP asked in late 80s...

Oops!! That bit flew right over ...

Darlo
did you ever go clubbing in darlo,
regards
Ronnie.

Posy: I was always a film fan and used to go four times a week when I was a lad. My father was a postman and got free tickets for the two cinemas on his walk. Add to that Sunday afternoons at the Edinburgh Scientific Film Society at the Dominion and The Film Guild at the Caley at night. No wonder I was always pale. When I left school I did toy with the idea of becoming a projectionist but you cuold not start until you were old enough to see the X rated movies.
When I went to live in London it widened the range of films I could see at the National Film Theater and some of the specialist cinemas like the very comfortable Paris Pullman.