Name: 有史以來最聰明的馬--一個真實的故事 (The Smartest Horse That Ever Lived - A True Story)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:16:28.000Z
Duration: 15 min 45 s
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I'm David Hoffman filmmaker, and I'm about to tell you a story that is quite a incredible.

I believe it's about the most intelligent horse that ever lived.

But before I tell you that, let me just tell you how I got into this story.

So I'm a young guy in New England starting to make films, and I love the old bookshops.

You go into the bookshop and you could find stuff from the Civil War for 1/4 and on the corner.

They had these pamphlets because pamphlets was a major way of communicating at that time.

And I would sit there hour after hour on a cold day on needed bookstore, looking at these old pamphlets and buying them.

So I pick up a pamphlet about a horse called Beautiful Jim Key, the most intelligent horse that ever lived.

So now it's in the 19 nineties, a time after the bubble where I had lost pretty much all of my money and I'm looking for ways of making a living.

And, uh, I had this pamphlet and I went to a writer in Hollywood who, friend of mine knew, and she said, I'd like to tell that story.

I'm from Tennessee with the horses from and the guy who raised him.

So let's find out if this story Israel and we go to Tennessee and we find out that the story is real and I'm about to tell you that story.

It's a time before the Civil War, Shelbyville, Tennessee, and a young slave.

Bill Key is being raised by John Key, who has also two sons, and John Key is a very kind man, and he raises Bill Key like he's one of his sons.

Educates him, gives him responsibility in the house, and when he sees that young Bilkey has a unique ability with horses, a kind of a horse sense, he elevates him to become the horse leader of nominally this plantation.

But of the surrounding area, he raised Bill with kindness and patience, just like his sons.

Bilkey is a young man, and he decides to go into the civil war on the side of the South to help his brothers, who he protects all the way through the war and at the same time to get free slaves through the southern to northern wall that existed.

So he's helping slaves, and he's helping these boys survive the South against the North, And he's also acting like he's a spy for the North and he gets caught and he's being tried for treason.

I don't know how, so he starts cooking for the guide in charge and he says, Look, I can really play cards.

I am a master at cards and while he's engaged with these guys, the North, he begins playing cards with them, making a lot of money.

He becomes surprisingly wealthy by the end of the Civil War.

He's freed several 1000 slaves, and he's protected.

John Keyes sons and the war is over, and he walks back down to Tennessee and the places, of course, somewhat decimated.

He buys the plantation back for John Key, so he has a home.

He then goes and sets up Ah, horse operation in Shelbyville, which becomes very famous beyond locally.

He sets up a race track, the hotel, a restaurant, a blacksmith shop and a horse hospital.

I mean, it's a major operation, and he is a major horsemen, and he loves racing.

The guy rides on the horse, he's fascinated by it, and he wants to create the greatest racehorse that Tennessee had ever seen.

The time is 18 85 and he wants to breed an unbeatable race horse.

He's out of auction in Mississippi, in the Deep South, a black person in a world of white horse traders and up comes Loretta.

Loretta is being sold as a famous I think she was Egyptian horse who had came from a long lineage but have been destroyed by circuses.

She had lived in the circus all her life and really was down and out worth nothing.

And Bilkey bids 40 bucks and others in the room, laughing and look at that stupid black guy.

They didn't say black, uh, buying that horse, But he could look in her eyes and he could see something special.

He talks about this later in what I'm about to tell you.

He buys Loretta, and now he has to find a Hamilton who he can mate with Loretta to produce the greatest racy horse.

The owner of Tennessee Volunteer, the number one racing horse at that time, and they breed and they create Ah, horse baby, a colt that is a complete total mess.

Looks like some horse, say his colleagues.

That should be shot taken out of its misery.

He looks in the eyes of that horse, and what he sees is something intelligent.

And you already had spent his life training horses and being around horses with kindness and patience and intelligence as he was raised.

He believed in that for every century and being, and he takes this horse and he begins to work with this horse.

Jim Kate talkto him sleeps in the stable with Jim Key, turns out for the rest of his life and gym keys life.

He trains him for three or four years, and he begins to see really signs of intelligence out of gym.

He finds it he can teach gym, fetch, lie down, play dead like a dog.

He also finds that Jim seems to be very interested in the other animals.

He comes over any sniffs them, is kind to them in a way that Bill feels is very unusual.

So when he's trained them in a number of these different skits, he takes him on the road with one of Bill's big money making products, Keystone Liniment Oil.

At that time, liniment oil and other oils was sold by people who went on the road.

Kind of circus is on the road, and Bill was very successful with Keystone, but about to become hugely more successful selling Keystone using Jim Key.

So he's on the road with the Keystone Liniment Oil.

And here is a quote from a newspaper about someone who saw Jim and Bill during this Keystone liniment tour.

Crowds gathered and Dr Key would slip Jim Key a piece of sugar and say, Now, Jim, use a powerful, smart horse.

Is that Republican Jim took a look of disgust and shakes his head.

The audience burst central after with this encouragement, Jim grassed a piece of chalk in his mouth and scrolls Jim on the blackboard.

Maids change from a cash register spelled the name of a man in the audience By selecting the letters from Iraq on the road, Jim does all kinds of tricks that people could not believe.

This was the time when the horse was a part of the family, but people did not think of.

You kind of treated horses sort of like dumb animals.

They were like When you can't say cars, will you keep treat your car kind of the same way?

But it was kind of like that, everybody, Adam, But nobody thought of them like this horse was behaving.

And Jim becomes famous with Bill Keystone.

Lindemann takes off, but he also begins to perform in Negro exhibitions.

They called them At these exhibitions, people show up and Jim is in the front of the stage, and Bill is on the side, and he says to the audience things he says to the horse things and the horse does, Um, I'm gonna tell you some of those things in a minute.

But picture Now it's 18 97 and he's performing somewhere in the South and a great New York circus guy.

Albert Rogers, hears about Jim Key and Bilkey and goes down and tries to buy Jim Key.

He sleeps with the horse every night, and he says, Of course I won't sell him.

So Albert says, Well, can we work together and form an act where you and Jim perform in front of audiences?

I think we can make a lot of money and they do.