Kentucky Pride
About Kentucky Pride
Breeder Beaumont loses horses at poker, then loses again when Virginia's Future breaks a leg while leading a race. His wife tells trainer Mike Donovan to shoot the mare and leaves him for neighbor Greve Carter. He also loses Virginia, his daughter. He and Donovan save the mare. She foals Confederacy. Debts force him to sell both. A junk dealer mistreats the colt. The mare is worked as a pack horse. Danny Donovan rides Confederacy in the Futurity. Beaumont bets what he has left and wins, gets his daughter back, and puts the colt out to pasture.
Cast & crew
More about Kentucky Pride
John Ford directed for William Fox. Dorothy Yost wrote it. George Schneiderman photographed. Fox released it. Henry B. Walthall plays Beaumont. J. Farrell MacDonald plays Donovan. Gertrude Astor, Peaches Jackson, Malcolm Waite, and Winston Miller are billed. Man o' War is among the thoroughbreds on screen. A print is at the Museum of Modern Art.
Themes
Look
George Schneiderman shot the races and the pasture.
Preservation
A print is in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
Notes
- The horse that breaks down is Virginia's Future. The foal is Confederacy. Sources disagree on whether the foal is a colt or a filly.
- Man o' War appears. He is not Confederacy.
- The New York Times did not review it on release.
- Walthall had played the Little Colonel in The Birth of a Nation.
Scenes
- Virginia's Future breaks a leg in the lead.
- Beaumont wins the Futurity bet and buys the foal back.
Also available
- Museum of Modern Art
