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that if he carried more than 2 Ib. overweight without 

 declaring it, he would, if he won, be disqualified, and 

 that by the plan he adopted he was quite certain to be 

 the right weight. But I suppose it never occurred to his 

 imaginative mind that others Carrying the right weight 

 being weighed at the lower stand would prove that he 

 carried the wrong weight when weighing in at the top 

 stand. If he had thought of this, and had had the 

 opportunity of making both scales alike, he would have 

 escaped detection ; for in that case all the horses would 

 have simply carried 2 Ib. over the weight assigned them. 

 There is no doubt that several jockeys did weigh out at 

 the top stand, and without knowing it rode 2 Ib. over- 

 weight ; and if one of them had won, and the fact of 

 carrying this overweight had been discovered, he would 

 have been disqualified. The culprit, when his turn 

 came, of course passed satisfactorily, having weighed out 

 and in at the top stand. But Sam Adams, the rider of 

 Catch 'em Alive, one of those who had ' weighed out ' at 

 the lower stand, was the first to try the scales in 

 ' weighing in ' at the top stand, and he could not draw 

 the weight. 



Admiral Rous was sent for by the clerk, and after 

 many ineffectual attempts to draw the weight, Adams 

 was told to leave the scales on the face of it a virtual 

 disqualification. Then James Grimshaw, the rider of 

 Summerside, the third horse, tried and failed to draw his 

 weight, though he protested that he drew it very well at 

 the lower stand. I told the Admiral that I was sure 

 Adams weighed the proper weight * out.' Of this I was 

 positive, for he rode in an exercise saddle without any 

 saddle-cloth, and so could neither from design nor 

 accident have lost any weight, as I saddled and un- 

 saddled the horse myself, and I asked that he might be 



