After she discovers what her grandfather had been collecting in jars which appeared to be empty, Scoop understands that although he had Alzheimer's, he remembered the past.
When Scoop meets the beautiful and glamourous Twila Twopennies and is invited to help out at her lavish stables, Scoop imagines that Twila is the mother who gave her up for adoption fifteen years earlier.
Sixteen-year-old orphan Scoop, a gifted gentler of horses, does not believe that racing is good for horses, but becomes involved with the sport after she and her coworkers agree to stable and help train a special filly.