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fome weight to the opinions I have fubmitted 

 to public confideration. 



In the fummer of 1775, I ran a match of 

 four miles, carrying twelve ftone, (v^ith a 

 gelding got by Broomstick) againft a 

 mare, the property of a gentleman of con- 

 fiderable fortune in the county of EfTex, for 

 fifty guineas. His extenfive property was 

 confpicuous in an elegant manfion, a pad- 

 dock of deer, a pack of harriers, and a li- 

 beral fubfcription to a neighbouring pack of 

 fox-hounds. That we might be equally 

 free from even a chance of the deception in 

 rld'mg I have juft defcribed, we trufted to 

 our own abilities in jockeyfhip, for a deci- 

 fion in which / conceived our honour and 

 property were equally concerned. The 

 match, however, w^as decided againft him 

 with perfeEi eafe, upon which he loft fome 

 conliderable bets ; but in the mortification 

 of his difappointment, affedting^to believe it 

 was won with much difficulty, he propofed 

 to run the fame match on that day fortnight, 

 upon my confenting to give him five pounds, 

 or, in other words, to reduce his weight to 

 eleven Jlone nine. This was inftantly acceded 

 Vol. 11. Dd to. 



