Riding High

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J. L... Yes, J. L... Yes, J.L.

- I've been waiting a half-hour!

- Not now, Mel. I'm busy.

Got to get all his sons-in-law

on the phone.

Main, 674.

Board of directors' meeting tonight.

This is the 1 st, you know.

They all know it's the 1 st.

They know there's a meeting tonight.

The whole town knows it.

Higgins Iron Works?

Higgins, Higgins, Higgins.

That's not a family,

it's a disease!

Arthur Winslow talking.

Oh, yes, Mrs. Peterson. Yes.

I just want to remind you there's

a board of directors' meeting

at J.L.'s house tonight

at 7 sharp.

Oh, yes, Mrs. Peterson.

Oh, you know me,

"Never Late" Early.

No, Mrs. Peterson, Mr. Brooks

hasn't been in all day.

I don't know.

It's got to be cut lower.

I've told you 100 times, lower!

Madame, I told you 200 times,

there's a limitation.

There will be at least

1,000 people...

All right. So what?

It's my wedding, not my funeral!

- Who is it?

- Your father's secretary.

What does that old bag want? Hello?

Well, how do I know where

Dan Brooks is?

Please help me locate him!

You know how strict your father is

about the meetings.

Well, he's not under my bed.

All right, I'll get him to the meeting

as I got him to all the others.

He's probably out

with that stupid horse.

Come on, Whitey! You're heading

into the stretch. Let him roll!

Come on! Let him roll!

Let's see if we got a horse.

Kick it out of low, princess.

Come on.

Oh, Bill. Oh, Bill. Come on, boy.

- What'd he make it in?

- Huh?

- What'd he make it in?

- 1:
42.

- Is that good?

- Good?

Honey, on a cowpath like this,

for a 3-year-old, that's flying.

Here, Bill. Come on, boy.

Mr. Brooks, this animal

just ain't human.

He's a flier, isn't he?

- What'd he do it in?

- 1:
42.

Great day in a morning!

With me on him?

He's diseased with speed.

It's a nice way to be sick.

Isn't he a beauty, princess?

Oh, you said it.

Oh, we're proud of you, Broadway Bill.

Steady, Bill.

- How's that ankle?

- Feels cool.

- He made it.

- Well, what's this?

- Path news comes to Higginsville?

- No, that's Skeeter.

- Skeeter?

- Miss Alice taught him to do that.

- I have many talents.

- Well!

Broadway Bill, you got a mascot

like a stakes winner. Big stuff, huh?

Is it true horses get so attached to

mascots they won't run without them?

Yeah, that's true,

but I think a jockey's useful too.

Hey, Whitey, get those bandages off

and go to walking him, huh?

Dan? When you put racing shoes

on him, can I help you?

Huh?

Say, you know more about

this horse than I do.

You been hanging around

the stable quite a bit, huh?

Want to make something of it?

No, but don't you let

Emperor Higgins catch you.

He'll ship you off to the salt mines.

Emperor Higgins

doesn't even know I'm alive.

I'm just the young brat in the family.

Well, you will stay single.

Why don't you get married

and give him another son-in-law.

Yes, I know. Someone to take care

of another Higgins enterprise.

Not little Alice.

OK, but marriage is getting

popular, you know.

I'm going to post soon.

Don't get shut out.

Been a long time since I've seen

a horse work that good.

Dan, why don't you?

Yeah, I should. Why don't I what?

Imperial Race Track

opened last week.

Oh, no. No more of that hobo stuff

for Dan Brooks.

He's getting married.

Gonna be a solid citizen.

Don't do it, Dan. Don't marry a Higgins.

Don't marry any Higgins.

You'll just rot here,

like the rest of us.

Princess, you've got

a very attractive little nose,

but keep it out of my business

or I'll twist it off for you.

- You're a fool!

- Well, I'm a happy one.

I was just a race track mug

till I met your sister.

Now I'm general manager of

the Higgins Paper Box Company.

Prune juice! You've been dying

to get out of Higginsville

- ever since you came here.

- Oh, get her!

Your heart and soul are in horses,

and you're making paper boxes.

Four hundred thousand last month.

Or was it last year?

- You're scared, that's what you are.

- Who's scared?

Dan Brooks, horseman.

Dan Brooks,

just another Higgins slave.

Yeah? Well, at my salary,

slavery can come back.

- Mr. Brooks, it ain't fair. It ain't honest.

- What ain't honest?

- What do you mean?

- We been together for a long time,

and this is the mostest horse

we ever did have!

He's ready, Mr. Brooks.

Just picked up that truck

with my last 25 bucks.

He's ready. You know it better than

I do. We owe it to him. He's ready!

Yes, he's ready and you're ready,

but I'm not. Do you hear?

I got smart. I quit racing.

I'm gonna stay smart.

Hey, Bill, go on.

Go on, chase him, chase him.

Chase him!

Go on. That's it. Push him.

No. Now, I'm through. No! Now, leave

me alone. I'm through with racing.

Don't mess with me.

I'm a big paper-box man.

Yeah, attaboy.

Never mind, now. Break it up.

Never mind.

No, I don't want to play. No, I'm a big

business man. Gotta go to a meeting.

You can stop that dancing too.

I told you, I'm through with horses.

Go on! Go back to Whitey.

Go with Whitey. I don't want anything

to do with you. Go on!

Now go back. Give him some more.

Yeah, that's it.

You back again?

What do you want with me?

What do you want with me?

I'm through! I'm through with horses.

Gonna make the paper boxes.

Yeah! Yeah!

Now go give him some more.

Why, I'll kick you in your big...

- Good evening, Miss Margaret.

- Good evening. What is your name?

- Huh?

- Is Mr. Brooks ready yet?

Not quite.

The name is Clarence White.

Wort say that rivers flow

Or day turns to night

But, darling

I'd say we've got a sure thing

All right

Wort say it's winter

When snow falls from above

But, darling

It's a sure thing we're

In love

- Maggie!

- Darling!

Come here.

We'll never get to the meeting this way.

Come on, slowpoke.

Wait a minute.

Not so fast, me proud beauty.

What's your hurry?

What's the rush?

Anybody ever tell you you're

the most beautiful girl in the world?

Just the world?

I'll include all the available planets,

the stratosphere, the outer space,

New York, New Haven and Hartford,

leaving on track five.

- That's better.

- Here.

- Come on.

- What's the hurry?

Come on, darling.

I may not be the most beautiful,

but I'm the happiest girl in the world.

The invitations were mailed today,

and you should see my dress.

- A stunner?

- Only three weeks more, darling.

The wedding will be the biggest thing

since Texas joined the Union.

- That was a big day.

- Good heavens!

- Even your dinner jacket smells horsy!

- What?

What do you use,

Equine No. 5?

You know he worked

a mile in 1:
42 today?

- Who?

- Broadway Bill!

And with Whitey on him too.

Just sitting there, looking and cooking.

Why don't you come out

the next time he works.

I'll bet if you knew him,

you'd love him.

Oh, I like horses, all right.

Especially when they're racing.

- Didrt I meet you at the track?

- That's what you did.

Remember, when I leaned over

and asked you if you had a winner?

Oh, and I had a winner too. You.

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