MICKEY ROONEY ON HORSEBACK.
Mickey Rooney rode a racehorse to a new track record during a workout at Hollywood Park prior to the championship race as Wallace Beery stood on the rail and clocked the time It was the opening scene for "Stablemates," which was filmed at Southern California's newest racing plant at Inglewood. Spectators, touts, owners, handlers, trainers, riders, and followers were all on hand to give the sequence the realistic .colour of a large track during the season. Another track, a replica of Hollywood Park, was constructed on the sixty acres adjoining the M-G-M studios, so that close-ups could be filmed there while the regular track was open to the public. Mickey arrived back from Nebraska, where he had been working in scenes for "Boys Town," just in time to start the new picture.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 20
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136MICKEY ROONEY ON HORSEBACK. Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 20
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