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The Great Dan Patch (1949) on Netflix

Approved19491h 34mAdventureBiographyDramaFamilyRomanceSport

Chemist David Palmer comes back to his family's Indiana farm to marry school teacher Ruth Treadwell. His father Dan breeds race horses, and a colt named Dan Patch is born there.

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After several years in Chicago, David Palmer returns to Oxford, Indiana, to marry Ruth Treadwell, the town's school teacher. His father Dan breeds race horses and is sorry to hear that the couple means to settle in Indianapolis; Ruth had hoped for Chicago society instead. They marry, and David takes a job in Indianapolis. When he visits Oxford to watch a new horse of his father's race, a groom's blunder injures the animal badly enough that it can only be bred from. Dan puts it to Joe Patchen, a stud from Illinois, and the foal is called Dan Patch. Ben Lathrop and his teenage daughter Cissy train the colt; Ruth, now a socialite with no interest in horses, is cold to the pair when they visit.

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