''Sporting Blood'' is a 1931 American

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. Two other pictures bore this same title, one released in 1916 by Fox and another by MGM in '' Sporting Blood'' (1940). Although they, too, centered on horse racing, none of the plots had any direct connection with the others.

Plot

Gambler Rid Riddell (

) works for Tip Scanlon ( Lew Cody), a crooked gambler, who buys Tommy-Boy, a racehorse from a wealthy man (

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) whose spoiled wife (

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) loses interest. Tip and Rid consistently win with the horse in both honestly and dishonestly run races. But before long, Tommy Boy loses a race he wasn't supposed to, and the mob is after Tip. Tip is murdered but not before giving Tommy Boy to his girlfriend (

) who sets out to rehabilitate herself and the horse. The horse rebounds. After an attempt at sabotage, the horse wins the Kentucky Derby, and Rid wins the girl.

Cast

as Warren 'Rid' Riddell *

as Mr. Jim Rellence *

as Miss 'Missy' Ruby * Lew Cody as Tip Scanlon *

as Angela 'Angie' Ludeking *

as Bill Ludeking * J. Farrell MacDonald as MacGuire * John Larkin as Uncle Ben *

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as Sammy

Box office

According to MGM records, the film earned $547,000 in the US and Canada and $346,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $148,000.

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