This MGM short does nothing more than to serve as a brief interlude between films at a matinée back in the day. Santa Anita racetrack serves as the backdrop for this excessive exercise in displaying a glutton of MGM stars at the time. Mickey Rooney was probably the biggest star at the time of those featured. The Original Sing Band is featured as a bunch of stable boys who receive a prize horse as a gift. They quickly enter it in a handicap race, but they get a different result than expected. The band does a few musical numbers, and the audience gets to see a horse race and several MGM stars. Buster Keaton of all people directed the film, indicating he was already in decline at the time. I was half expecting to see Keaton as a concession vendor in the grandstand or something like that, but it never happened. Keaton does not appear in the film.
Review of Hollywood Handicap
