Keep Them Running Aka Keep ’em Running (1945)

Title reads: “Keep ’em running!“ Epsom Downs, Surrey. Various library shots of crowds at race course during 1930s. Various shots of Epsom race course during war, empty except for horses training. Various shots of horses going around course and being trained to use jumps. We see racehorse trainer Victor Smyth and family walking over course, one of his sons rides a horse. Various shots of boys working as stable hands (wartime labour shortages means they are younger than usual!). C/U of boy feeding star horse “Forestation“ being fed in stable. Various C/Us of horses looking over stable doors. More shots stable boys at work, some polishing the saddles and bridges. More pre-war footage. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical col
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