- Edward Campbell, known as Checkers, is a racetrack tout. Determined to reform himself, he foreswears gambling, but must take it up once more in order to save someone he loves from disaster.
- "Checkers" a race horse enthusiast, falls in love with Pert Barlow despite the protests of her father, wealthy Southern Judge Barlow, who had hoped his daughter would marry Arthur Kendall. Checkers enters Pert's horse Remorse in a race in which Kendall's horse is also running. When Kendall, who is interested in Pert mainly for her money, learns of Remorse's speed, he schemes with Alva Romaine to keep the horse away from the track. Kendall plots to have the horse's freight car uncoupled from the train in which he is riding and run off an open drawbridge. The car is set on fire, but Checkers manages to save both the horse and Pert. Checkers and Pert lead Remorse to a hiding place. In an attempt to learn Remorse's hiding place, Pert is abducted in Chinatown and then rescued by Checkers. When Remorse's jockey is injured by Kendall's men, Pert wears the boy's clothes and rides Remorse to victory. Finally, the judge consents to a marriage between Pert and Checkers.—Pamela Short
- "Checkers" is a race track tout. His friend and constant companion is "Push" Miller. Arthur Kendal is enamored of Pert Barlow, daughter of Judge Barlow, who owns a racing stable. But Kendal is constantly getting drunk. Pert, anxious to help Kendal, enlists the aid of Checkers. But Checkers begins to fall for Pert. He proposes and she accepts. But Judge Barlow sees Checkers knock down Kendal, and orders the tout out of his house. Now Checkers and Pert had planned to enter Pert's horse "Remorse" in the big race at New York. Kendall was betting on another entry, and had even borrowed $20,000 from Judge Barlow. Checkers runs off with Pert, and Push takes Remorse from the stable. But Kendal and his thugs follow them to a train. With Push and the horse already on board, Checkers and Pert make a flying leap from their auto and get onto the train. Kendal's henchmen board the same train car, and uncouple it from the rest of the train. A fight ensues in the boxcar, during which a lantern is overturned. The car narrowly misses being hit by another train, then plunges through an open drawbridge into the river. Everyone, including the horse, manages to escape. Remorse is hidden in a secluded shack.
Alva Romaine, who had been jilted by Kendal, follows a downward spiral and ends up at an opium den in Chinatown run by Sam Wah. She trails Checkers, Push and Pert, at Wah's instigation. Kendal and his gang kidnap Pert, and take her to Sam Wah's den. Checkers and Push learn where she is and rescue her. Sam Way and Kendal fight over Alva, with both men ending up dead. Checkers, Push, and Pert escape in a small boat, by way of a sewer. When they reach the East River, they are picked up by a seaplane, and are transported to the track at Belmont. There, they learn that Pert's jockey has been blinded by Kendal's jockey. Pert dons a jockey's uniform and rides Remorse to victory. All ends happily as Judge Barlow gives Checkers and Pert his blessing.
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