394 TURF. 



that RIDERS may be selected, whoavill prove 

 inviolably faithful to the dictates of this 

 party ; that could mjt or loould not reconcile 

 an honourable attaclniient to the first no- 

 blemen in the kingdom. These are the in- 

 fernal deceptions -and acts of villany upon 

 THE TURF, that have driven noblemen, gen- 

 tlemen, and sportsmen of honour, from what 

 are called country courses^ to tiieir asylum of 

 Newmarket; where, by the exclusion of 

 THE FAMILY froui their clubs.and their horses 

 from their subscriptions, sweepstakes, 

 and matches, they render themselves in- 

 vulnerable to the often-envenomed shafts of 

 the most premeditated, and in general well- 

 executed, villany. 



Without entering into a tedious descrip- 

 tion of the many possible nieaiis by which 

 depredations are committed upon the pro- 

 perty of individuals, whom fashion or incli- 

 nation prompts to sport their money upon 

 such occasions ; yet, to render these villanous 

 practices more familiar to the miuds of those 

 who may incredulously doubt the possibility 

 of deceptions of this kind, instances must 

 be adduced to establish tlie certainty, of 



