When owner/trainer Paul Megson bought a pure white Thoroughbred weanling named Arctic Bright for $80,000 at the 2007 Keeneland November breeding stock sale, he had high hopes for the son of Painting Freedom, who is one of the few white Thoroughbred stallions in the world.

After Arctic Bright turned in disappointing, unplaced efforts in his first two highly anticipated starts as a 3-year-old at Turfway Park this spring, however, Megson was forced to go back to the drawing board.

But not for long. When well-known trainer Rex Peterson, who has conditioned horses for several major films, including Disney's recently released Secretariat, was in Lexington for the World Equestrian Games, he paid a visit to Arctic Bright at the Thoroughbred Center on Paris Pike. It didn't take Peterson long to realize the striking, fair-skinned colt was exactly the horse he had been searching for.

Now Arctic Bright is on his way to start a new vocation under Peterson's care at a private ranch in Southern California, where he will be prepared for a possible future role on the silver screen