The Winter Stallion

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| alt_name = The Christmas Stallion

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| director = Peter Edwards

| producer = Peter Edwards

| writer = Paul Matthews

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| starring = Daniel J. Travanti
Lynette Davies
Siân MacLean

| music = Larry Brown
Richard Glasser

| cinematography = Peter Thornton

| editor = Keith Palmer

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| released = {{Start date|1992}}

| runtime = 95 min.

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget = £1 million{{cite web |last1=Whittaker|first1=Martin|title=It's all down to Matthews family values |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/it-s-all-down-to-matthews-family-values-1568716.html |website=independent.co.uk |date=19 January 1995 |publisher=The Independent |access-date=30 September 2024}}

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The Winter Stallion, also known as The Christmas Stallion, is a 1992 British television Technicolor film directed by Peter Edwards and starring Daniel J. Travanti. A Welsh language version titled Eira Cynta'r Gaeaf was filmed back-to-back and broadcast on S4C, which produced the film.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7d186f27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160915154644/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7d186f27|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 15, 2016|title= The Christmas Stallion (1992) |publisher=BFI|accessdate=26 July 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-mouth-to-mouth-resuscitation-they-brought-out-some-floppy-cardboard-and-wrote-out-two-or-three-1562858.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-mouth-to-mouth-resuscitation-they-brought-out-some-floppy-cardboard-and-wrote-out-two-or-three-1562858.html |archive-date=2022-05-07 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Mouth to mouth resuscitation|last=Johnston|first=Sheila|newspaper=The Independent|date=10 December 1992|accessdate=21 November 2016}}{{cbignore}}

Plot

Dai Davies (Eric Wyn) is a Welshman running a cash-strapped farm in modern Wales and raising his orphaned granddaughter Gwen (Sian MacLean) with the help of her godmother Nerys (Lynette Davies). When he dies unexpectedly, he leaves Gwen's guardianship to his estranged son Alan (Daniel J. Travanti), who has returned to Wales accompanied by his stepson Cliff Dean (Patrick Loomer). Alan's return pits himself against land developer Howard (Dafydd Hywel) and Cliff against Gwen's would-be suitor Gwilyn (Richard Lynch). As Alan and Gwen try to connect in the background of readying the farm's prize stallion Mabon for a race that could save the farm, Howard resorts to dirty tricks to try and force through the farm's sale.