Misses Cowy Makes A Wish by Rocky Muscia

The bond with this horse changed everything for Cody. “It was like the horse knew who was there to see him,” he said. Mulvihill was once again in awe as this now two-year-old thoroughbred colt ‘kept pulling until again he was right in front of Cody, where Cody could stroke him’. “The hardest thing we’ve dealt with and watched him go through is depression,” Cody’s parents said. In 2020, after watching their son additionally struggle with severe depression, Cody’s parents got the idea to go back and visit that horse they had met two years earlier to lift Cody’s spirits. It all started from that extraordinary moment.

“What happened from there was special, the foal just came up and laid his head down on Cody’s lap and just spent some quiet time there with Cody.” Stud Farm Manager Danny Mulvihill arranged an introduction with a ‘mild mannered six-month-old weanling’. In 2018, Cody made a wish to meet a racehorse, and with the help of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Cody and his parents Kelly and Leslie, with sister Kylie, went to Godolphin’s Gainsborough Farm in Kentucky. This is the story of a racehorse that saved a young boy’s life.Ĭody Dorman suffers from Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome (WHS), a rare genetic disorder that affects many parts of the body, resulting in delayed growth and development, intellectual disability, low muscle tone and seizures.ĭoctors told the Dorman family that Cody would only live for two years and although he is now 16 years-old, Cody has spent a lifetime overcoming long odds. Since 1984, the world’s best thoroughbreds have competed in the Breeders’ Cup, but in the history of the race there are few stories as heartwarming and miraculous as Cody’s Wish and Cody Dorman. Didier, and Howard Wendell as the policeman.Cody's Wish with Cody Dorman. The original cast included Nanette Fabray as Janette, Harold Lang as Ricky, Melville Cooper as Marius Frigo, Stephen Douglass as Paul Dumont, Helen Gallagher as Poupette, Phil Leeds as Dr.

Raoul Pène Du Bois designed the sets, lights, and costumes for the production. Wilson and choreographed by Gower Champion. The production was produced by Harry Rigby, Jule Styne and Alexander H. The musical opened on Broadway on Apat the Winter Garden Theatre where it ran for a total of 102 performances until it closed on July 14, 1951. Sturges' primary motivation for writing the book was financial, as he was deeply in debt at the time. Make a Wish is a musical with a book by Preston Sturges and Abe Burrows, who was not credited, and music and lyrics by Hugh Martin.īased on Sturges' screenplay for the 1935 film The Good Fairy, which in turn is based on the 1930 play of the same name by Ferenc Molnár as translated by Jane Hinton, the musical focuses on Janette, who experiences various adventures, including love with young artist Paul Dumont, when she abandons her tour group during a visit to Paris.

Misses Cowy Makes A Wish by Rocky Muscia