Flicka (Horse)

Description
"Flicka" (Swedish for little girl), as seen in the 1943-American family adventure drama film, is a chestnut (Despite being colored black in the 2006 loosely remake and it's 2010 and 2012 sequels) wild mustang, a free-roaming horse of the Western United States, descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish Conquistadors.

The 2006 film is loosely based on the 1941 children's novel My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara. In 1943, the coming-of-age Technicolor film My Friend Flicka was produced and released by 20th Century Studios (Formerly known as 20th Century Fox). A My Friend Flicka television series produced by 20th Television (Formerly 20th Century Fox Television) followed during 1956-1957, that first aired on CBS, then on NBC, with reruns on ABC and on CBS between 1959 and 1966. A sequel to Flicka, Flicka 2 was released directly to DVD on May 4, 2010. Another sequel, Flicka: Country Pride, was released on May 1, 2012.

In 20th century studio's 2006 loosely adaptation, Flicka was the horse of headstrong 16-year-old Katherine "Katy" McLaughlin, who dreams of running her father's Wyoming horse ranch. Despite this in 20th century studio's original adaptation franchise, Flicka belonged to the imaginative Ken McLaughlin, a 10-year-old boy living on Goose Bar Ranch, just out of Cheyenne, Wyoming. In the 1945 Technicolor family film, Thunderhead, Son of Flicka, Flicka gives birth to an all-white colt known as Thunderhead; he was sired by a neighbouring rancher's thoroughbred racehorse, Appalachia.

Trivia

 * In the My Friend Flick films and television series like in the novels, Flicka is identified as a Mustang, though, was played by a purebred Arabian mare named Wahana, and was sorrel in colour. Flicka was additionally identified as sorrel in the 1943 film adaptation My Friend Flicka and it's sequels Thunderhead:Son of Flicka and Green Grass of Wyomimg much like in the novel series.
 * Throughout the production of the 2006 film, two horses died during filming. The first death occurred at Big Sky Ranch in Simi Valley, California, on April 11, 2005 during a running scene. According to the American Humane Association (AHA), the horse broke its leg after a misstep and suffered a very rare injury requiring the animal to be euthanized. The second horse died two weeks later on April 25, 2005, after it tripped on a regulation length 13-foot lead rope and fell to the ground, breaking its neck and dying instantly.