Huston joins the previously announced Morgan Freeman, who will play Ildarin, a chariot race trainer.
"I thought that Rewilding ran a very good race," trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni told the Godolphin website.
Most of the herders' children are moving to the bigger cities for work or higher education, but Antti, the son of Jouni Pätsi, a retired herder and reindeer race trainer, decided to follow in his father's footsteps.
For most races, trainers do not train a horse on race day.
Jerry Romans, one of the more successful horse racing trainers at Churchill Downs, died Thursday.
Prior to races, trainers and owners gather with their participating animals to decide distances and determine how races are to be handicapped.
In the big races, trainers often have a go-to jockey, like John Velazquez, who is Pletcher's No. 1 rider, and whose agent is Angel Cordero.
Correction: May 27, 2003, Tuesday A Sports of The Times column on May 17 about the relationship between two prominent horse racing trainers, Bob Baffert and D. Wayne Lukas, misstated the year Baffert won the Del Mar Futurity stakes race with Silver Charm.
A Sports of The Times column on May 17 about the relationship between two prominent horse racing trainers, Bob Baffert and D. Wayne Lukas, misstated the year Baffert won the Del Mar Futurity stakes race with Silver Charm.
The decision by the New Jersey Racing Commission to allow horses from the same stable to compete as separate betting interests in the Million Dollar Babies card at the Meadowlands Saturday night has sparked arguments among harness racing trainers and drivers.
