Well my daughter told me to watch this on Amazon. She is 44 and I am 67. We both love horses, my daughters have them so anything with horses in I watch usually. I was HOOKED first episode. Its a thrilling and exciting ride from the beginning. Episode 2 season 1, was breathtaking, the riding and stunts superb. I loved this show from the start to the end. Interesting mix of storylines, love, mischief, spite, jealousy, you name it well its got it. Oh and yes some horses will only respond to one person if they have been imprinted with them. My daughters is like that. (black with a star). ANYONE can watch it this, and no its not about fires as some bright spark told me lol. REALLY excellent, dont miss out on a great ride.

This show is horrendously inaccurate. Yeah, the characters are engaging and interesting, and yeah the acting is decently okay. But the people who created this show know nothing about horse racing. For one thing, the first horse ridden by Kris at Raintree - Oklahoma Crude - is chestnut with a white blaze. In a later episode, the same horse makes an appearance but has no facial markings whatsoever. Kris herself is a fantastic representation of how inaccurate the show is - she is too tall and too heavy to feasibly become a jockey. She is not fat or overweight by any means, but jockeys are required to weigh around or less than one hundred pounds. Wildfire too is a very inaccurate, poorly designed picture of a racehorse. He was sold to the Camp LaGrange program for losing too many races on the track, which would put his age at about three when he got there. To be as well reconditioned as a pleasure horse as he was in the show, he would have had to been at Camp LaGrange for at least a year. Which means that by the time Kris arrives, stays, and leaves with him he would be at least four years old, but most likely five or six. However, they mention multiple times in the show that he is a three-year-old, which is completely impossible because thoroughbreds don't start racing until they are two and he is supposed to have lost multiple races.Raintree's racing silks are also exceptionally false. In the first race, Kris wore orange and yellow. In the second race, she wore solid yellow. In the third, she wore sky blue and in the fourth they were purple and white. Barns do not change their colors that easily. For a racing barn to change its silks it requires applying to the Jockey Club, and it is an expensive process. Because of the financial difficulties frequently mentioned by Raintree's owners, it is impossible for them to have changed their barn colors that many times in such a short period. It is also pointless.Honestly, I enjoy the show but it is so ridiculous that it gets infuriating each time.

I was translating this show for Russian TV. I found it absolutely primitive.. Most of the actors are completely untalented. Seems they've never taken acting technique lessons. They can only stare showing their sorrow and smile foolishly showing joy. The characters are flat. Dialogs are silly and senseless. Tons of 'okay', 'hey', 'yeah' and other language rubbish. When there's nothing to say ( and this happens rather often) the characters just foolishly sigh. Lots of sentimental scenes. Script writers don't have even a grain of imagination! The producers have wasted their money. For people who don't care what to watch. For those who prefer to see color spots on the screen. Waste of time.

My 14 year old horse loving daughter loves this show which means that the entire house has to watch.I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the writing and acting of some characters--notably Genevieve Cortese, Arye Gross, and the especially talented Nana Visitor. Sadly, all of the acting is not of that quality. Greg Serano as Pablo seems stiff and stoic in every scene.Production quality could be stepped up a bit, but I suspect they're squeezing everything possible from the budget.There have been a few scenes that might be too sexually charged or violent for young children, but the rating system works. Use it if you have young children watching television.