''Life of a Thoroughbred'' is a 1941 American short

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directed by

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. Its subject was horse racing. It was part of ''Adventures of the Newsreel Cameraman'', a series of documentary shorts produced by

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. It was nominated for an

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for Best Documentary Short.

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* 1941 films American short documentary films American black-and-white films 20th Century Fox short films 1941 documentary films Black-and-white documentary films 1941 short films 1940s short documentary films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{short-documentary-film-stub