174 THE GOLDSMITHS. 



Gray Chief, and was losing at Boston when the judges 

 took the matter in hand. The starters in the Boston 

 race were Captain Emmons, Sheridan, Mary Russell, 

 Alley and Jersey Boy. Murphy won the first heat 

 with Sheridan, Weeks the second with Captain Em- 

 mons and Alley the third, after which the race went 

 over on account of darkness, and was then continued 

 another day by unfavorable weather. When the 

 horses finally appeared Alley won the fourth heat and 

 Captain Emmons the fifth. When the three heat 

 winners were given the word for the sixth heat 

 Weeks moved off in front and led to the finish. Alley 

 was very unsteady, but remained in second place until 

 near the head of the stretch, where Sheridan passed 

 him. The judges promptly marked the performance 

 "no heat" and followed it by making one of the most 

 unique changes on record, when they asked John 

 Murphy, the driver of a competing horse, to get up 

 behind Alley and turn Sheridan over to Golden. After 

 the change Alley went on and won in a jog in 2:24, 

 which was within a second of the fastest heat in the 

 race. In due time the judges, notwithstanding the 

 earnest pleading of Alden Goldsmith, bidding them to 

 "take my son, but spare my horse," expelled James H. 

 Goldsmith and the bay gelding, Alley. Later on, at 

 the request of the officials who presided at the meet- 

 ing, Alley was reinstated by the Board of Appeals of 

 The National Trotting Association, which also rein- 

 stated the driver, when a similar recommendation 

 had been filed after he had been off the turf during the 

 season of 1880. The following table shows the races 

 that James H. Goldsmith drove in 1879: 



