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course, when business occasionally compelled us to meet. 

 Indeed, I doubt if after the Cesarewitch, and the mare's 

 victory in it, he ever condescended to speak to me, as he 

 was greatly enraged because I would not let him stand 

 50 on her at long odds. He had overnight sent me 

 a verbal message to this effect, through his brother-in- 

 law, Mr. Lawrence. This I could not agree to. I 

 reminded his ambassador that Sam had only wished to 

 stand 10 on her in the first instance ; but I offered to 

 lay him 12 to 1 to any part of the 50 he liked. This 

 more than generous offer was indignantly refused, and out 

 of sheer spleen Sam went and laid 600 to 100 against 

 her, declaring, as he termed it, that he had thus ' got 100 

 out of her;' and he then backed Killigrew, a horse of 

 whose form he knew something, not only from his public 

 performance, but from having ridden him in trials when 

 he belonged to the Admiral. Thus in his double defeat 

 in this race he probably suffered a greater disappoint- 

 ment than he ever met with in the whole course of his 

 life not only in losing his money, and that no small 

 sum, but in seeing the mare in other hands run about 

 three stone better than ever she had done in his. This 

 is the true story of the race and Sam Rogers' connection 

 with it ; and in what point the alleged collusion between 

 us could have existed it will take a very clever one indeed 

 to discover. 



I had yet another notable transaction with Lord 

 William Powlett ; but in this case it was not 'a deal.' 

 I ran a little horse called Isthmian, in the Houghton 

 Meeting, after winning the Cambridgeshire, in a selling 

 race for 350. In the same race Lord William had a 

 colt by Flying Dutchman out of Priestess DiUcibella's 

 dam. My horse was favourite at 3 to 1, won easily, and 

 was claimed by Mr. Craven. I claimed the Priestess 



