The Little Adventuress (1938)

Two circus acrobats hurtle to their death when a wire snaps and their daughter Pinky Horton has to face the future as an orphan Unwilling to live with her stern Aunt Hattie she and Handy a circus performer load up Counto the Wonder Horse into a trailer and head to the California racing stable owned by her cousin Dick But the latter has lost everything and refuses to accept a position in the soap factory owned by Herkimer Gould the father of Dicks fiancée Helen Pinky is convinced that Counto is a horse filled with racing blood and she spends the grocery money and sells their jalopy to get the funds needed to enter Counto in a claiming race