The Steeple Chase
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Mickey is set to ride Thunderbolt in the big race; his owner, the Colonel, has bet everything. But the stable-hands goof off and incapacitate the horse. In desperation, Mickey rents a horse costume and puts the stable-hands inside. They manage to eventually clear the hurdles, but get hung up on one near a beehive; the bees propel them to victory.
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Mickey forced to race in a pantomime horse costume after the real horse is incapacitated. The two-men-in-a-horse-suit routine is centuries older than cinema, and the short is a good demonstration of how animation could take a stage gag and push it past what any stage could stage.