The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love
About The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love
Jack loves a trainer's daughter, but her father wants her to marry Delmar, who owns a stable. Jack and Delmar bet on a race, and she agrees to marry whichever man wins. Delmar sees that his horse is slower and pays a stable boy to dope Jack's horse. Jack's jockey overhears, tries to stop them, and is beaten and locked in an empty house. He gets out too hurt to ride. The daughter puts on Jack's colors, takes the mount, and wins the race.
Cast & crew
More about The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love
James Searle Dawley and Edwin S. Porter directed. Porter also photographed. Edison released the one-reeler on November 23, 1907. The story is loosely taken from Theodore Kremer's 1904 play A Race for Life.
Themes
Making
Porter and Dawley staged the finish on a racetrack and cut from the night stables to the deserted house to the post parade, instead of playing the whole story in one view.
Look
Edwin S. Porter shot it. The nineteen shots move between the trainer's cottage, the stables at night, a deserted house, and the track, with no intertitles to carry the bet.
Preservation
A print survives and has been posted from an archival copy.
Notes
- The surviving cast list names Edward Boulden, Miss DeVarney, William Sorelle, and Mr. Sullivan, without role assignments.
- The picture is nineteen shots long and has no intertitles.
- The side bet is the Windsor Cup race. The trainer holds the stake.
- Delmar's plan fails in the paddock, not at the wire: the doped horse never gets the drug, but the jockey does get the beating.
Scenes
- The trainer and Delmar walk in on Jack and the daughter at the cottage.
- Delmar and the stable boy beat the jockey and hide him in an empty house.
- The daughter comes to the post in Jack's silks and wins.
Influenced by
- Theodore Kremer's play A Race for Life (1904)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-trainers-daughter-or-a-race-for-love)
