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notwithstanding the disgrace, declared with great 

 zeal, that she should run the next day against any- 

 gelding in the world, for double the sum. My 

 master immediately accepted the challenge, and 

 told him that he would the next day produce a 

 gelding that should teat him : but what was my 

 astonishment and indignation when I discovered 

 that he most cruelly and fraudulently intended to 

 qualify me for this match upon the spot ; and to 

 sacrifice my life at the very moment in which 

 every nerve should be strained in his service ! 



'' As I knew it would be in vain to resist, I 

 suiFered myself to be bound ; the operation was 

 performed ; and I was instantly mounted and 

 spurred to the goal. Injured as I was, the love 

 of glory was still superior to the desire of revenge. 

 1 determined to die as I had lived, without an 

 equal ; and having again won the race, I sunk 

 down at a post in an agony, which soon after put 

 an end to m ,^ life." 



The following is the opinion of Mr. John Law- 

 rence, as given in his Philosophical and Practical 

 Treatise on Horses, as to the credit which ought 

 to be attached to this cruel anecdote. 



" Every sportsman, I hope, (writes that author), 

 holds in equal detestation with myself the memory 

 of the brutal and callous-hearted Frampton, who, 

 dead to the soft feelings of compassion, and urged 

 by the sordid motives of gain, cut his favourite 

 horse. Dragon, and instantly ran him to death in his 



