Beating The Racing Crooks! (1939)

Titles read: “BEATING THE RACING CROOKS!“ United States of America. Various shots of a thoroughbred horse being examined and measured outside a stable. The details are recorded in an effort to stop the ’turf crooks’ who try to substitute one horse for another in some of the big horse racing events. The horse seen here is called ’Histrionic’; his details and photographs are put into a file. Several shots at a racecourse in Miami, Florida; as the horses file past on their way to the starting gates a man flicks through their pictures and details to check they are the correct horses. Brief shots of the horses starting off and running around the track. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000