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and is in fad: no more than a palpable rob- 

 bery ; as the horfe, it is alrea'dy determined 

 BY THE FAMILY, is not to wi?i^ and the 

 money fo betted is as certainly their own as 

 if already decided. 



This part of the bufinefs being tranfaft- 

 ed, a new fcene of tergiverfation becomes 

 neceffary ; tlie horfe being mounted, the 

 rider is whifpered by the nominal owner to 

 win the firft heat if he can; this it is fre- 

 quently in his power to do eafy, when he is 

 coniequently backed at ftill incrcafcd odds as 

 the expected winner ; all which propofed 

 bets are inflantly taken by the emifiaries, or 

 rather principals in the Jinn : w^hen, to 

 fhew us the verfatility of fortune, and the 

 viciffitudes of the turf, he very unexju^edly 

 becomes a loser, or perhaps runs out of the 

 courfe, to the feigned difappointmcat and 

 afte6led forrow of the owner ; who publicly 

 dcclai;es he has loft fo many ** fcore pounds 

 upo0 the race,'* whilft his confederates are 

 individually engaged in coUeding their cer- 

 tainties^ previous to the casting up 

 STOCK at the general rendezvous in the 

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