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of which there has been too many public 

 proofs, to require the fpecification of any 

 particular fact for the purpofe. It may fuf- 

 fice to obferve, it is univerfally known fuch 

 villainies have been repeatedly difcovered ; 

 where the owners have been notorioiifly dif- 

 qualified by advertifements, from ever run- 

 ning their horfes, and thofe riders from ri« 

 ding, at the places where they have been fo 

 juftly ftigmatized, and fo properly held in the 

 utmoll contempt. 



Upon fo precarious a tenure does every 

 fporting man of fpirit retain his hope of 

 fuccefs, that I will be bound to verify the 

 affertion by innumerable inftanccs ; that no 

 man living can breed, train, and run 

 his horfes to infure even a probabihty of 

 emolument, by any honourable means what- 

 ever. Noblemen and gentlemen of im- 

 menfe fortunes, to whom it is an amufe- 

 ment, and who never know the want of 

 annual receipts, in a repetition of thoufands, 

 may indulge themfelves in a gratification of 

 theu. predominant wiflies, and feel no ill ef- 

 feds from a variety of iofles, or perpetual ex- 

 penditure, 



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