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elosely to my instructions, he refused to dis- 

 mount, or relinquish a single weight, and 

 absolutely won his match with four pounds 

 more than he should have carried. Fifty 

 yards before he reached the winning-post, 

 one of the party clamorously commanded 

 him to pull up, saying, '' the other xoould 

 never overtake him. ; the moment I had hia . 

 horse by the bridle leading him to the scale, 

 another vociferously enjoined him " to get 

 off] and not distress the mare\' either of 

 which, not previously guarded against, but 

 inadvertently complied with, must have in- 

 evitably lost the very considerable sum I had 

 depending upon the event. 



But to confirm beyond every shadow of 

 doubt this horrid scene of deliberate villany 

 and deception ; while the mare was rubbing 

 down at a small distance from the course, 

 after winning the race and receiving the 

 stakes, a person came and made inquiry, 

 whether a jockey had not been with me that 

 moriiiiig earl3% making an offer -to ride my 

 mare, gratis?'' Upon my answering in 

 the aiHrmative, he assured me I had a very 

 narrow escape ; for " he had sat the pre- 



