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and generous owner, Charles Howard (Bridges); his taciturn but sage trainer, Tom Smith (Cooper); and his poetry-spouting, accident-prone jockey, Johnny “Red” Pollard (Maguire).
Howard, as a bicycle repairman, gambled early on the dominance of the automobile, rose to wealth and was then hit by tragedy and turned to horse racing as a diversion from grief.
Smith was a cowboy with a preternatural instinct for horse training. Jobless after the closing of both the open range and the Wild West shows, he was spotted by Howard bringing a crippled horse back to health.
Pollard was a well-read, middle-class kid whose family
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