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the ground. The old one, as may be 

 supposed, ran the fastest and longest ; but, 

 being mistaken by the 'touter 7 for the 

 young one, his fame soon spread abroad, 

 and he was sold the next day to the noble 

 viscount for fifteen hundred guineas, being 

 somewhere about eleven hundred more than 

 he was worth. But the march of intellect 

 and roguery, which appears to have run a 

 dead heat on the turf, has made people 

 wiser and sharper respecting such matters 

 as these. The Marquis of Exeter keeps his 

 trying saddles under his own locks ; and 

 has a machine for weighing his trial riders, 

 which shows the weights to himself, and to 

 no one but himself. 1 



But to return for a moment to the effect 

 of weight on the race-horse. Perhaps an 

 instance of the most minute observation of 

 this effect is to be found in a race at 

 Newcastle-under-Lyne, some years back, 

 between four horses handicapped by the 

 celebrated Dr. Bellyse, namely, Sir John 



1 The uninitiated in these matters are not perhaps 

 aware that horses are often matched at Newmarket for 

 large sums, though with the certainty of losing, merely 

 for the advantage of a trial with a good horse. 



