Thoroughbred is a 1936 Australian race-horse drama film directed by Ken G. Hall, partly based on the life and career of Phar Lap.

Joan nurses the horse back to health with the help of Ma's son Tommy, and Stormalong starts to win races.

He becomes the favourite to win the Melbourne Cup which attracts the interest of a gambling syndicate who try to dope the horse and kill it in a stable fire.

While in Hollywood there he signed contracts with American star Helen Twelvetrees and writer Edmond Seward to work on the film.

[10]) Her co-stars would be Australian leading man Frank Leighton and English actor John Longden who was having an extended stay in Australia.

"[4] The film received a release in the UK, but was subject to cuts from the censor on the grounds of scenes depicting cruelty to animals, in particular the stable fire.