Episode Quotes

Mistakes/Goofs

• Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Jane claims that covering all of the combinations in order to win him the trifecta cost him $5000. Yet a typical race has less than 13 horses 13 x 13 x 13 is 2197 possible combinations. He claims to have bet 50 cents but even at the normal $2 value of the smallest wager that's only $4394.
• Goof (continuity error): Castor's Folly and Pollock's Dream are supposed to be identical, but when shown together on the track after Grace dismounts Pollock's Dream, Castor's Folly is a golden color, while Pollock's Dream is a deep rich brown.
• Goof (continuity error): For the big race at the end, the horses first load into the gate on the turf course, however, all subsequent footage of the race is made up of a montage of multiple races on dirt.

Trivia

• "The Red Pony" is a novella by John Steinbeck.
• Twin horses featured in this episode are called Castor's Folly and Pollock's Dream, according to signs on their stalls. In Greek and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux (not Pollock) were twins who were transformed into the constellation Gemini ("The Twins"). Pollock is the common name for various species of edible fish.