Arizona Sweepstakes (1926)

Arizona cowboy Coot Cadigan travels to San Francisco and runs into Stuffy McGee a smalltime crook who stages phony fights to amuse the tourists During one of those frights a man is killed and Coot gets blamed for it Stuffy hides him out but when he gets arrested Coot hightails it back to Arizona with Stuffys three children To earn some money he enters the Arizona Sweepstakes a horse race with a large purse and one on which Col Saverythe father of the girl Coot lovesdepends on to save his ranch