* Tobey Maguire as Red Pollard
* Jeff Bridges as Charles S. Howard
* Chris Cooper as Tom Smith
* William H. Macy as "The Iceman"
* Gary Stevens as George Woolf
* David Morse as "The Colonel"
* John Standing as "The Duke"
* Kevin Dunn as "The Doc"
* Stephen Root as "The Judge"
* Richard Jenkins as "The Man"
* James Cromwell as "The Veterinarian"
* Patton Oswalt as "The Announcer"
* Patrick O'Connell as "The Trainer"
* David Paymer as "The Newspaper Man"
* Ned Beatty as "The Jockey Agent"
* James Whitmore as "The Old Man"
This list includes both major and minor roles.