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which there have been too many pubhc 

 proofs to require the specification of any 

 particular feet for the purpose. It may suf- 

 fice to observe, it is universally known such 

 villanies have been repeatedly discovered-; 

 where the owners have been notoriously dis- 

 qualified by advertisements from ever run- 

 ning their horses, and those riders from ri- 

 ding, at the place where they have been so 

 justly stigmatized, and so properly held in 

 the utmost contempt. 



Upon so precarious a tenure does every 

 sporting man of spirit retain his hope of 

 success, that I will be bound to verify the 

 aissertion by innumerable instances, that no 

 man living can breed, train, and run 

 his horses to insure even a probability of 

 emolument, by any honourable means what- 

 ever. Noblemen and gentlemen of im- 

 mense fortunes, to whom it is an amuse- 

 ment, and who never know the want of an- 

 nual receipts, in a repetition of thousands, 

 may indulge themselves in a gratification of 

 their predominant wishes, and feel no ill ef- 

 fects from a variety of losses, or perpetual 

 expenditure. 



