Beautifully photographed by Marcel Le Picard, but otherwise this one comes across as a very routine Bowery Boys entry. As usual, at this stage of the series, we are treated to a massive amount of weak jokes and lots of other time-wasting dialogue. Leo Gorcey is forced to carry much of the film, and he does this duty very poorly by making his tepid material even more wearisome by his deliberately heavy-handed approach. Fortunately, the other players are a bit more skillful. In fact, it's real nice – if a little disheartening – to see people we really like such as Ted de Corsia and Allen Jenkins reduced to accepting roles in a "B" picture like this one. Unfortunately, William Beaudine's direction doesn't help much. He tends to make tepid material even more wearisome by his generally heavy-handed approach.

In this Bowery Boys comedy we have little Louie Dumbrowsky (Bernard Gorcey) looking to collect an outstanding debt from a down-on-his-luck stable owner, so Slip and Sach (Leo Gorcey/Huntz Hall) arrange a meeting to make the pickup for him. When the boys meet the man, he makes them an offer to take "My Girl" as settlement instead of cash. At first the boys think My Girl is the man's attractive daughter, but quickly realize it's a horse. Louie is none too pleased when they return, but it turns out that this animal is a class A race horse, and it isn't long before a group of crooked gamblers try to get their greedy hands on her. The plot is typical silly comedy fodder, and a lot of running time milks the same gag of mistaking one horse for another, but it's zany enough to make this a moderate pleaser for Bowery Boys fans. **1/2 out of ****

***SPOILERS*** The "Bowery Boys" get themselves into the horse racing business when they try to collect $250.00 from a Mr.Flynn who loaned if to sweet shop owner Louie Dumbrowsky and hasn't paid it back for some two years. Flynn who's business at his Sunnybrook Hunting and Riding Club has hit hard times only has this nag "My Girl" to use as collateral and trades it in for the $250.00 that he owes Louie.As thing are soon to turn out "My Girl" is a really fast filly whom race track fixer Randall is planning to switch with the filly "Tarzana" as a ringer, who in all her races never finished better then last, in the next race she's to run. With "Tarzana" expected to go off at odds of at least 100 to 1 it's a sure thing for Randell and his boys Duke & Weepin Willie are to score a big payday with what should be the odds on favorite "My Girl" finishing first as the broken down 100 to 1 nag "Tarzana".As you would expect in a "Bowery Boys" movie things don't exactly work out as planned by both the "Bowery Boys" and the Randall mob. There's a number of switches of both "Tarzana" and "My Girl" during the movie that makes it almost impossible,in both fillies looking like identical twins, to tell who's who in the stable or on the racetrack. In the end it's "My Girl" running as "My Girl" with the Randall mob betting against her in thinking that she's Tarzana who saves the day by winning the big race with that at least the 150 pound dead-weight and inexperienced as a jockey Sach, using a walkie talkie to communicate with his friend Slip, riding her to victory. It would have been hard enough for "My Girl" to win the race with an Eddie Arcaro or Willie Shoemaker, weighing under 115 pounds, on board but with the both nutty and 150 pounds Sach riding her that's a feat that's even beyond miraculous!

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Chuck (David Gorcey as David Condon), Butch (Bennie Bartlett) and Whitey (Billy Benedict) suddenly become the Mahoney Collection Agency when they learn that Flynn (Tim Ryan), stable and second-hand store owner, has owed $250 to Louie (Bernard Gorcey), Sweet Shop proprietor, for over two years.Flynn, who has a daughter named Terry (Gloria Saunders) persuades Slip to accept "My Girl," a horse, in payment for the debt. Flynn has been boarding the horse for months but has not been paid. "My Girl" is a really good race horse that is actually owned by racketeer Big Al (Ted de Corsia), who with Weepin' Willie (Allen Jenkins) and Swifty (Michael Ross), are planning to run the horse in a future race as a ringer for their long-odds and very-slow horse, Tarzana. The Bowery boys learn of this and switch horses. Big Al, Willie and Swifty swath back. This goes on until finally the Boys have "My Girl,", the good horse and Big Al and company have Tarzan, the nag, but think they have "My Girl." Tim Ryan could write one like this in his sleep, as could most of the fans of the series from this point on...beginning with...let's make a jockey out of Sach.