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Driver won the 2 \2.2. class, Aleck was started and dis- 

 tanced, while during the Philadelphia and Baltimore 

 meetings Judgment was started in five races and 

 Edgar in four without coming up to expectations. At 

 the Ambler Park meeting, where Driver was awarded 

 first money in the 2:20 class, James H. Goldsmith 

 also had a mount behind Change, his first pacer, and 

 finished third to Little Mac. Shipping west from 

 Baltimore, the Walnut Grove Farm stable stopped at 

 Lyons and Geneva, where Alley defeated the old 

 campaigner, Tom Keeler, in the 2 '.24 class, and Judg- 

 ment was unplaced to Larkin, one of the horses that 

 defeated him at Pimlico. The next stop was at Cin- 

 cinnati, where Driver won the 2 '.24. class over Post 

 Boy, Deck Wright, Dick Taylor and Dictator, while 

 Alley was third to Lucille, Huntress fourth to Hannis, 

 and Edgar unplaced to Will Cody. At Columbus the 

 following week Powers made his only start in 1879. 

 He took the word with Belle Brasfield, Lucille, Elsie 

 Good and Deck Wright. Seven heats were trotted 

 before the winner was found. Powers won the first 

 in 2 123, Belle Brasfield the second in 2 -.22, Elsie Good 

 the third in 2:22^, Powers the fourth in 2:24^, and 

 Lucille the fifth in 2 '.26. The next two heats and race 

 went to Belle Brasfield in 2:22, 2:23^, Elsie Good 

 being distanced in the sixth. At this meeting Alley 

 was second to Lewinski, Judgment fourth to Ed 

 Geers, with McCurdy's Hambletonian and Edgar 

 fourth to Red Line. 



On the trip from Chicago to Boston, Driver and 

 Alley were the stable's only starters. Driver was 

 third to Bonesetter at Chicago and Rochester ; fourth 

 to Darby at Buffalo and won the 2 :2O class events at 



