Ride a Wild Pony is a 1975 American-Australian family adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions, directed by Don Chaffey and based on the novel A Sporting Proposition (1973) by James Aldridge.

[4][5] Set in a small Australian town during the interwar period, the film follows the battle between two children, Scott, a poor farm boy, and Josie, the handicapped daughter of a wealthy ranch owner, for ownership of a horse that both children love.

[8] The children eventually become friends and, while the ownership issue is legally resolved, they agree on a way of sharing the pony between them.

[10] There was also some filming in the small country town of Bingara, New South Wales, where some of the cast and crew, including John Meillon, stayed at the Imperial Hotel for around 3 months.

[11] The film opened on Christmas Day, 1975[2] at the Fine Arts theatre in Los Angeles and grossed $9,000 in its first week.