Her Second Chance (1926)

Caroline Logan, Wild Kentucky mountain girl, Caroline Logan, emerges from a reformatory and vows revenge on Judge Jeffries, who sentenced her for shooting a trespasser on her land. As Constance Lee she engages Louis Beachey, a shrewd lawyer, to retrieve some property willed her and incidentally to plot the judge's downfall. Beachey comes upon information that gives him a business advantage over Perry Gabriel, a society "bounder"; Gabriel blames this development on Constance and engages a detective to investigate her. Constance enters her horse in a race to compete against Jeffries' entry, but Gabriel connives to substitute a "ringer" for the judge's horse. Hearing of the substitution, Constance experiences a change of heart but arrives too late to rectify matters; she denounces the plotters, however, and saves the judge from disgrace.