Saturday, October 9, 2010

Disney Secretariat Review & Movie Prize Pack Giveaway!

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This giveaway is now CLOSED. Thanks so much to our wonderful sponsor Disney! We look forward to working with you again! The winner has been notified and upon confirmation, follower name will be posted both here and on our homepage. Remember: There are great giveaways active on the upper right hand side of the page Where it reads “Today’s Butterfly! Win Here’!
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My apologies, this was meant to post pre-release, but to say this week has been insane would be an absolute understatement. On Friday, October 8th Disney released the movie 'Secretariat', which chronicles the spectacular journey of the 1973 Triple Crown winner. The first U.S. Triple Crown champion in 25 years, setting race records that still stands today in the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. In 1973, Secretariat also graced the covers of three magazine covers in the same week, Time, Newsweek and Sports Illustrated.  In 1999, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled a 33-cent postage stamp with Secretariat’s image!

Secretariat Fun Facts:

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Secretariat’s heart was twice the size of an average horse’s heart.

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths and still holds the record time at 2:24 for 1.5 miles.

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Secretariat was ranked the 35th Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century by ESPN.

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ -  During the peak of Secretariat’s career, the William Morris Agency would book the horse’s appearances the same way they would any of their other (two legged) mega celebrity clients.

I was invited to a sneak preview during BlogHer, but wasn't able to sneak away and sent a representative in my stead, who said something about the movie immediately afterwards that has still stuck with me:



"This is an amazing story that chronicles not just Secretariat, but a woman who by necessity was very much ahead of her time."

I honestly don't think I could have summed it up better!

I love reading stories about strong women who triumph despite the obstacles thrown in their path. Penny Chenery (Played in the movie by Diane Lane) agrees to take over her ailing father’s Virginia-based Meadow Stables. Chenery, with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin (John Malkovich), manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years! No small feat!

I have had life long love of horses, since my first trip to a Dude Ranch in Pennsylvannia when I was five. By the end of that trip I quickly graduated from pony to riding horses, and wanted to become a cowgirl (in addition to being a Doctor) when I grew up!


Here is a movie trailer:


I wish I would have seen this movie when I was younger, maybe I would have wanted to manage a race horse too!


Photo Credit: Disney

For fellow True Blood fans you may recognize Nelsan Ellis (who plays Eddie Sweat in the movie Secretariat), HBO's True Blood 'Lafayette'. True Blood is one of my TV guilty pleasures, I was very happy to discover he was in this movie!









Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - WIN IT! - Ascending Butterfly and our friends at Disney would like to provide 1 Ascending Butterfly Follower with a Secretariat Prize Pack which includes a Men’s T-Shirt,  Women’s T-Shirt, Youth T-Shirt and Hat!

Don't you just ♥ Disney?

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - How to Win: (1) You must be a PUBLIC follower of Ascending Butterfly to be eligible for this and all giveaways. Indicate in your entry that you follow (if your 'comment name/user id' differs from your profile id, please let me know what name you follow under) and (2) Share your or (little ones) all time favorite Disney Character! (3) You must also leave your email address somewhere in your comment. (You can format it this way for security, example: ascendingbutterfly AT mail host DOT com). (If your email is clearly visible in your profile, you can just say so, that's OK!) Please follow the easy 1, 2, 3 steps to winning (or in this case, the A,B,C’s of winning!) This giveaway is open to USA residents who are 18 years of age or older. No PO Boxes.


Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Please follow directions or you will be disqualified! All comments are moderated, they may not appear on the site right away (comments like "I want this" or "I want to win" will not be entered). You have from Saturday, October 09, 2010 until Friday, October 15, 2010 at 03:00 PM (EST) to comment and be entered for a chance to win. You will have 48 hours to confirm if we do not hear from you we will be forced to move on to an alternate. (We only notify winners DIRECTLY via email, so if your profile or your comment does not have an email your entry will not be processed)

EXTRA CREDIT:

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Blog about this giveaway, linking to this giveaway post. Leave the URL in a comment.

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Grab our Button and put it on your Blog. Leave the URL where we can see it in a comment (if you already have our button, just let us know, you will still get extra credit!)

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Follow @Tracy_Iglesias on Twitter (this is ascendingbutterfly’s editor) and give me your twitter ID in a comment

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Ok to RT Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - #ascendingbutterfly + @SecretariatFilm #win a #Secretariat Prize Pack #Giveaway! #Secretariat http://tinyurl.com/2vektmr

(Leave a comment with the tweet’s url so you can get a valid entry (click on the time your tweet was sent to get the direct URL and then copy and paste it here). You can Tweet TWICE per DAY. If you Tweet more than that, that entry will be disqualified.)

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Follow, now called ‘Like’ (and don't forget to write on their wall that Ascending Butterfly sent you!) Secretariat on Facebook HERE

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Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ - Ascending Butterfly is a nominee for the Bloggers Choice ’10 Awards in the ‘Best Blog About Stuff’ Category - You can press the button below to go straight to the page where Ascending Butterfly has been nominated!

My site was nominated for Best Blog About Stuff!
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FTC Disclosure Info for this Giveaway: This is not a paid insertion. This is a non-compensated post and all opinions regarding the movie and Disney are expressly my own experiences. I was provided a prize pack and press screening passes to facilitate my review and to facilitate the giveaway. The sponsor is fulfilling directly to prize winner(s), this in no way influenced my opinion of the product or the film. Once a winner is selected and their information has been forwarded to the sponsor, the responsibility of prize fulfillment rests with the sponsor. And by the way, I really do love horses and have been riding since the age of five! :-)

28 comments:

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