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Mr. Garrett is a horse fancier. Oliver Normand is in love with Dora Garrett, and purchases the very horse which his sweetheart's father had in mind. When Mr. Garrett learns this he is furious with Oliver and refuses most emphatically to ...See moreMr. Garrett is a horse fancier. Oliver Normand is in love with Dora Garrett, and purchases the very horse which his sweetheart's father had in mind. When Mr. Garrett learns this he is furious with Oliver and refuses most emphatically to allow him to marry his daughter. Dora thinks she can placate her father's wrath and tells Oliver to instruct his driver to lose the race. Pete, the driver, has a little winning of his own to do. Maggie, his sweetheart, has told him if he does not win this race, she will not marry him. On the day of the race, Pete wins the race for Oliver and a bride for himself, but in the winning of the trot, Oliver loses Dora. An idea comes to him. He makes out a receipt for the horse in Dora's name, and when her father meets Oliver and Dora together, he is about to pour out his wrath upon them, when she shows him the receipt, convincing him that she is the owner of the winning horse. Mr. Garrett is delighted and congratulates her upon her choice and knowledge of horse-flesh. She as her father if he cannot trust her judgment in the selection of Oliver as her husband. Mr. Garrett decides in her favor and blesses them. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less