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Featuring:
Ann Christy, Sumner Getchell, Joan McCoy
Directed by:
Ben Holmes
Release Date:
January 6, 1930
Original Title:
Steeplechase
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 18
This entry of Universal's Sporting Youth series goes to the racetrack. The father of Cudgie (Sumner Getchell) has a horse entered in the Big Steeplechase. Judy (Ann Christy, Cudgie's girlfriend, learns that the jockey has taken a bride to throw the race, so she replaces him and wins the stock-footage race from a Universal feature film.
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