Racing Blood

Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro' ), youngest member of a family of jockeys, borrows $4.85 (yes, four dollars and eighty-five cents) from his sister Phyllis (Gladys Blake), who is not a jockey, to buy a crippled colt from the stables owned by Clay Harrison (Kane Richmond). He nurses the colt back to health, and in two years has one of the fastest horses in the country.

Cast

Frankie Darro

as Frankie Reynolds

Kane Richmond

as Clay Harrison

Gladys Blake

as Phyllis Reynolds

Arthur Housman

as Legs

James Eagles

as 'Smokey' Reynolds

Matthew Betz

as Tex O'Donnell

Si Wills

as Dopey

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

as Sad Sam

Bob Tansill

as Magnus

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