Scattergood Rides High (1942)

When Martin Knox a friend of Scattergoods who owns a horsebreeding farm is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martins son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his fathers business which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knoxs death The boy reluctantly agrees but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governors Race whose 5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his fathers mortgage and keep the business in the family