Desert Gold (1919 film)

Desert Gold is a 1919 Australian horse racing melodrama from director Beaumont Smith starring the racehorse Desert Gold. It is considered to be a lost film.

Years later, Forsythe owns substantial horse racing interests, which are run by trainer, Anderson, who has a daughter, Joan Marie Ney. Forsythe has a new champion race horse, also known as Desert Gold played by the reallife Desert Gold. Harrington knows his horse, Slippery Jane, has no chance against Desert Gold, so he plays Anderson at cards and gets him into debt. Joan discovers a wire across the training track set by Harringtons accomplices and manages to stop them hurting Desert Gold.Harrington threatens to bankrupt Anderson so Joan offers to marry him. Forsythe ends up paying the debt and Joan is aged after a race between a motor car and a train to Katoomba. Harrington then lures Fortyhe to a lonely spot in the Blue Mountains and imprisons him, then sends a telegram in Forysthes name scratching Desert Gold from the Cup and backs Slippery Jane. Forysthe manages to escape and flies to the city in time for the race. Desert Gold beats Slippery Jane, despite Harrington ordering an electric whip be used on his horse. ........

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