A crooked gambler with a Kentucky-born thoroughbred prods a drunken rancher into betting his entire spread and all the money he has in the bank on a horse race.
Longley rides to the rescue when four gunmen ambush a man riding in a buggy; Longley brings the wounded man to a nearby house, but nobody wants to help him because he's a judge scheduled to preside over the trial of a local land baron.
Longley, trapped by a landslide, is rescued by a man on the run from the law; he's accused of shooting a man, but the sheriff just assumed he's guilty because he's already served a jail term -- and he's sweet on the sheriff's sister.