400 TURF. 



For my own part, I am decisively and ex- 

 perimentally convinced, no man in mode- 

 rate circumstances, who cannot afford a 

 daily prostitution of pi operty for the inces- 

 sant gratification of dependent sharks on 

 one hand, and the perpetual supply pf de- 

 ceptive villains on the other, can ever ex- 

 pect to become the winner of match, 

 PLATE, or SAVEEPSTAKES, uulcss he hap- 

 pily piossess the means and situation to go 

 throu"i;h the business of traininQ- under his 

 ow^i roof, and riding his oxen horse \ or .fix- 

 ing firm reliance upon some faithful do- 

 mestic, properly qualified, totally uncon- 

 nected with the contaminating crew, whose 

 conduct we have so accurately delineated, 

 \vithout an additional ray of exaggeration. 

 But as my declaration of proof collected 

 from EXPERIMENTAL CONVICTION, may 

 not be generally accepted as sufficiently 

 authentic, without some more powerful 

 evidence than bare superficial assertion^ I 

 must beg permission to conclude these ob- 

 servations, upon the present state and va- 

 rious inipositions of the turf, with the 

 communication of a few personal occur- 

 rences, that I doubt not vviU contribute 



