• The title Playing the Ponies is a straightforward slang expression meaning "betting on racehorses."^[1]
• The Stooges' restaurant is The Flounder Inn.
• A colorized version of this film was released in 2004. It was part of the DVD collection entitled "Goofs on the Loose."
• After the swinging door hits Moe on the face, Moe gets up from the floor and has tears rolling down his eyes as if he was really hurt.

[Moe to Curly, after Curly runs around the racetrack, leading Thunderbolt behind him with a rope.]

• • Moe: "What's the big idea?"
  • Curly (out of breath): "You told me to race him around the track. And I did. And I beat him!"

• Watch colorized Playing the Ponies - first half.
• Watch colorized Playing the Ponies - second half.

• Moe Howard and the Three Stooges; by Moe Howard [1], (Citadel Press, 1977).
• The Three Stooges Scrapbook; by Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer, Greg Lenburg [2](Citadel Press, 1994).
• The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons; by Michael Fleming [3](Broadway Publishing, 2002).
• One Fine Stooge: A Frizzy Life in Pictures; by Steve Cox and Jim Terry [4], (Cumberland House Publishing, 2006).

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