390 TURF. 



times happens) as well convinced lefore 

 ftarting, whether they can beat their com- 

 petitors, as if the race was abfolutely deter- 

 mined. 



This, however, is only the neceflary ground- 

 work of deception, upon which every part 

 of the fuperftructure is to be raifed ; as they 

 experimentally know how little money is to 

 be got by winnings they feldom permit that 

 to become an object of momentary confide- 

 ration ; and being no flaves to the fpecious 

 delufions of honour, generally make their 

 market by the reverfe^ but more particularly 

 where they are the leaft expected to lofe : 

 that is, they fucceed beft in their general de- 

 predations by lofng where their horfes are the 

 favorites at high odds after a heat or two, 

 when expedled to w'm to a certainty^ which 

 they as prudently take care to prevent. 



This bufinefs, to infure faccefs and emo- 

 Iun\ent, is carried on by fuch a combination 

 of villainy ; luch a fympathetic chain of hor- 

 rid machination, as it is much to be la- 

 mented could ever enter the minds of de- 

 generate men for the purpofes of deftrud:iono 



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