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previous work. I may add that he told Sir Joseph of 

 the ruse afterwards, but the baronet would not believe 

 him. 



I remember a very similar case, when Ruby, or a horse 

 that was run as Ruby, won the Althorp Park Stakes in 

 a way in which that race has never been won before or 

 after : the horse literally cantered in. He was trotted 

 and cantered back to the weighing enclosure much in 

 the same way that some of the horses were for the 

 Cambridgeshire in Catch 'em Alive' s year, his saddle 

 taken off and himself covered up with immense cloths in 

 the quickest possible manner, and was never seen at 

 Northampton again. Now, if the jockey, owner, or 

 trainer knew it was the right horse and carried the right 

 weight, what motive could have suggested this unneces- 

 sary haste ? The solution of this intricate problem was, 

 according to Mr. B. Way's account of it, which I had 

 from himself, the following: Jones, then his trainer, 

 took Brocket a horse that in the following year won the 

 Royal Hunt Cup with 8 st. 5 Ib. on him without his 

 knowledge, order, or consent, to Northampton, where he 

 was not entered for a single race, and placed him in a 

 box by the side of Ruby. The man that had to take the 

 horse out was no doubt aware of what was being done ; 

 and instead of taking Ruby out to run, he took Brocket, 

 and, on account of the alleged fractiousness of the real 

 horse, had him saddled at the post. Consequently, 

 before the race was run, the horse had not been seen by 

 anyone ; and by very few after it, through the hurry in 

 which he was taken away, to say nothing of the difficulty 

 attending his recognition swathed in clothing, as I have 

 described. The horse was then taken back to his box 

 proper, which no one knew he had left beyond those 

 concerned in the affair. Mr. Way said he did not know 



