Build a movie plot around this: What does Hank burn down? his livery business
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It's 1895 in Maple City, where champion horse harness racer and livery stable owner, Hank Armstrong (Russell Simpson), is well-known. Hank's prize mare, Sloe Eyes, wins all her races and Hank is popular and prosperous as a result.Sloe Eyes racing days come to an end when she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a foal, named "Bright Eyes." Unfortunately, Sloe Eyes is unable to survive the strain of giving birth and she dies, leaving Hank heartbroken, but dedicated to raising and caring for Bright Eyes.When the inventor of the new "horseless carriage," Elmer Hays (E. H. Calvert), comes to Maple City and makes a presentation about his invention, Hank is outwardly skeptical. Inwardly, he resents the attention that the new machine is attracting, and he's secretly worried that the machine might possibly replace his beloved horses.Banker & Squire Rufus Stebbins, the richest man in town, also becomes the first to buy one of the new cars (Douglas Gerrard). With several passengers riding along, he fires up the vehicle and with a flash of flame and cloud of smoke, he takes off down Main Street, with hundreds of excited citizens chasing along and cheering wildly. Stebbins didn't do any practice driving beforehand, so he has trouble controlling the car and crashes through several fences and scares numerous horses along the way. Eventually, he drives right off a high bluff, crashing the car into the river below. It doesn't appear as though anyone was seriously hurt.One of the local men working on his new car is belittled by Hank, who also challenges the man to a race. Hank asserts that his horse, Bright Eyes, could easily defeat the man's car in a one lap race around the local track. Bright Eyes and Hank do win the race, but only because the man's car experienced some mechanical issues during the race. All the spectators rushed in afterwards to look at the car, and not to congratulate Bright Eyes.Hank's son, Bob (Charles Emmett Mack), was never particularly interested in his father's horses, but he is highly enthusiastic...