BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Silver Blaze

**Posted by Straker** July 11, 2012 11:00 am

Since we are aware John will show anger towards Sherlock when he returns, I'd love to see Sherlock give John the inside information on a big horse race ala what occurred in 'The Silver Blaze'. John scores a big win ($$$) at the track that day, and all is well again between the boys. Silly? Yes, but everybody loves a winner baby.

**Posted by Davina** July 11, 2012 5:04 pm

I'd love them to incorporate the Silver Blaze story into the next series, or the one after, or the one after that.

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** August 8, 2012 6:17 pm

Only just seen this thread whilst doing some forum tidying...but just wanted to say Silver Blaze has always stood out as one of the ones that could easily be adapted. Horse racing is still common today so wouldn't be that hard to modernise it. It's just a really cool story as well and it'd be easy to mix it in with one of the others.

**Posted by The Doctor** August 9, 2012 12:17 am

Or a modern twist - John gets to take the horse instead of the money, and they have awesome Victorian-style adventures together ;)

**Posted by deerstalker** August 9, 2012 6:54 am

Totally agree! I think the story is very easily adapted ( barely needs to be adapted at all, it fits into modern times beautifully). It's a great story- good twist, well-drawn secondary characters ( good opportunities for comedy and repartee, as well)

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