The Coronation of King George VI is taking place in London, and when Bill has to leave suddenly to attend to embassy business in Madrid, Jock offers to escort Leslie to a dinner and a ball. Very interested in Leslie, Jock decides to enter Abby R to run at Ascot in England. State Department employee Bill Van Dyke III. Jock invites Leslie to see Abby R win the Kentucky Derby, but she informs him that she will be in London, where she is to marry U.S. She is amazed when he tells her that the horse is actually worth about $30,000. Later, however, her niece Leslie Hale, accuses Jock of not paying enough and demands another $500. In Boston, Jock sees the late owner's sister-in-law and pays $500 for the horse. When the owner of racehorse "Abby R," which has recently won a major race at Santa Anita, dies suddenly, Jock and Kitty compete to buy the horse. Jock Wallace, scion of a well-known Maryland horse breeding family, and socialite Kitty Brant are longtime rivals at the horse racing tracks, but enjoy a close, bantering relationship. Jock, contrite and converted, returns to his old homestead and begins training another horse. Leslie and old-time trainer "Doc" Ellbourne (James Gleason) then proceed to win race after race with the horse. They separate and he gives Leslie the horse that brought them together, and he hits the road. Leslie wants Jock to settle down on his Maryland farm to raise and sell race horses, but he has too much gypsy in his blood and wants to follow the race-track circuit. In Buenos Aires, Leslie is jealous of Kitty Brant (Helen Walker), an old flame of Jock's. Jock and Leslie fall in love and are married on a boat to South America. He finds out that she is engaged to Bill Van Dyke (Glenn Langan), a young diplomat, and follows her to London, entering the horse he acquired from Aunt Helen in the famed Ascot Gold Cup. Jock Wallace (Cornel Wilde), an easy-going and rootless horse lover, is taken to task by Leslie Hale (Maureen O'Hara), who thinks he has swindled her Aunt Helen (Ethel Griffies) on the purchase of a horse. A film that qualifies as a Travelogue Documentary in that it contains footage of world-famous race tracks such as England's Ascot, Palermo in South America, and Churchill Downs, Jamaica, Aqueduct, Hollywood Park, Santa Anita, Belmont, Hialeah, Arlington and Saratoga in the United States, and since it begins in London in 1938, the Coronation of the King.
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