[2] As described in a review in a film magazine,[3] Judge Roberts (Keenan), greatly reduced in circumstances, hides his true financial condition from his daughter Virginia.

He raises her in luxury by continuingly selling parts of his estate, until all he has left are his old home and his racing mare Southern Melody, who is about to have a colt.

Through the carelessness of a stable boy, the mare wanders away and the colt is born in a rainstorm and nearly dies from exposure.

Dexter (St. Polis), trainer for a millionaire who owns an adjacent training stable, loves Virginia and tells her of her father's poverty.

The colt, now named Dixie, is badly injured in its first race, and, when it is about to be shot, Johnny Sheridan (Hughes) begs permission to try and save it.