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better) had paid the money Tor him. This 

 Chifiiey represents as a mere calumny, in- 

 vented to give colour to the false accusation 

 of riding booty, brought against him, because 

 Clark usually betted money for Chifney, and 

 the calumniators sought to have it believed, 

 that the bettina: on the two races was manasred 

 by Clark, as a joint concern : it had been re- 

 ported, that Chifney had won six or seven 

 hundred pounds upon the race which he 

 caused Escape to lose, and six or seven 

 hundreds more upon the race which he won, 

 the bets having been made by the aforesaid 

 Vauxhail Clark. 



On the morning of the day on which the 

 Prince left Newmarket, being upon the course. 

 His Royal Highness called Ciiifney, and, ad- 

 dressing Sir Charles Bunbury, one of the 

 stewards of the Jockey Club, informed hira of 

 Chifney's readiness to be exam.nec^n any 

 mode which the Club might judge"roper, 

 desiring Sir Charles to take every possible 

 pains to obtain satisfaction ; aflerwards re- 

 marking to Chifney, " Sam Chifney, this busi- 

 ness should be explained." To which Chifney 

 answered, " Your Royal Highness, I don't 

 know how to explain it." 



The gentlemen of the Jockey Club appointed 

 to examine Chifney, were Sir Charles Bun- 

 bury, Bart., Ralph Dutton, Esq., and Thomas 

 Panton, Esq. All the questions asked him 

 had already been answered by Chifney on 

 affidavit. Sir Charles Bunbury, it is stated, 

 had the earliest and strongest suspicion of 

 Chifney, and was the most severe upon him. 



In order to render intelligible an investiaa- 

 tion of this business, it may be necessary to 

 explain to most readers certain terms appro- 

 priate to the technicality of the course. Pie- 

 tnierement, the grand and important division of 



race-horses, in respect to their qualifications, 

 is into the stout and the speedy ; the first term 

 indicating such as are stout of heart, cool in 

 temper, and firm in constitution ; generally nof 

 remarkable for readiness and speed, but calcu- 

 lated to succeed in a long race. Of the 

 second, it is usually said, speed is their best ; 

 by which is meant, that they are best qualified 

 for a short race, possessing a pomptitude in 

 the higher degrees of velocity, which must 

 necessarily be of a relative short duration. 

 Tills description are generally free, and of a 

 warm temperament ; sometimes, but not in- 

 variably, of a weak and washy constitution. 

 It may be easily conceived, that the degrees 

 of variation or approximation in these respects 

 must be infinite, rendering it frequently no 

 easy matter to determine positively to which 

 class a Horse belongs ; whence numberless 

 errors, both in those who give directions, and 

 those who ride. As to the extremes, there 

 are Horses which have barely racing speed, 

 their sole virtue consisting in their great powers 

 of continuance, by which, in a four-mile race, 

 they wear out their more speedy antagonists. 

 On the other hand, there are such as no mea- 

 sures of art can enable to come throuo:h a lonsr 

 course ia the company of reputed running 

 Horses : these have their distance, beyond 

 which Nature has put it out of their power to 

 excel. Of this description were Fireaway, 

 Masquerade, and Rocket of former days. 

 The two first were most successful at the 

 distance of a single mile ; the last, at that of 

 one quarter, or half a mile at most. It is not 

 in the course of nature, that phenomena like 

 Childers and Eclipse should be often pro- 

 duced, uniting the extremes of both speed and 

 stoutness, giving the go-by and the distance to 

 all possibility of competition. The most use 

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