His Last Dollar (1914)

Former newsboy and jockey Joe Braxton becomes a millionaire rancher and decides to visit New York He soon becomes the prey of swindler Tom Linson and socialite Viola Grayson Linson defrauds Braxtons old employer Colonel Downs and attempts to corrupt Eleanor the colonels daughter When Eleanor learns that Linson intends to destroy Joe on the stock exchange she warns him disregarding Linsons threat to ruin her reputation Eleanor is too late but Joe recovers his losses by riding Mongrel to victory in the Kentucky Futurity after having stacked his last dollar on the horses success