After Paramount Pictures bought the rights to this film, the studio pulled it from circulation to avoid competition with Frank Capra's remake Riding High (1950). The film remained unseen until it was re-released in the 1990s.
Raymond Walburn (Pettigrew) and Clarence Muse (Whitey) played the same roles in Frank Capra's 1950 remake titled Riding High (1950).
Douglass Dumbrille, Ward Bond and Charles Lane all play the same roles in the remake, Riding High (1950), although the respective character names are different.
Frankie Darro plays jockey Williams in both this film and the its remake, Riding High (1950). This saved considerable funds in not having to re-shoot the racing footage for the newer version.
In his autobiography, Frank Capra says he was disappointed in the film, mostly because Warner Baxter was deathly afraid of horses, so that he could not film many warm scenes between them. Baxter was "terrified of being bitten or kicked." It was the primary reason he remade the film [Riding High (1950)] with Bing Crosby, who loved horses.