The first inland town in Western Australia 1831 also has the oldest racetrack in Western Australia!
Runt, the novel where this film was based on, won the Book of the Year and the Children's prize at the 2023 Indie Book Awards. It also won the Children's book award at the 2023 BookPeople Book of the Year Awards and the 2023 CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers. Runt also won the 2024 Young Australian Best Book Award for Fiction for older readers.