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Exeter's late trainer, examined before the 

 Jockey Club. He admitted having betted 

 three hundred pounds against one of his 

 master's horses. Was there any harm in 

 that individual act ? None : because he 

 had previously betted largely that the horse 

 would win> and he had recourse to the 

 usual, indeed to the only, means of securing 

 himself from loss on finding that he was 

 going wrong. But we maintain, that he had 

 no right, as Lord Exeter's trainer and servant, 

 to bet to an amount requiring such steps to 

 be taken. Again ; who betted the three hun- 

 dred pounds hedging-money for him ? Let 

 those who inquired into the affair answer that ! 

 Now what security had Lord Exeter that all 

 the money had not been laid out against his 

 horse, and then, we may ask, where was his 

 chance to win ? Moreover, if trainers subject 

 themselves to such heavy losses for this man, 

 it seems, had a large sum depending on the 

 event there is too much reason to fear they 

 may be recovered at their masters' expense. 1 



1 This trainer sued a public betting man this last year 

 for three thousand pounds on a bill given the June or 

 July after the Derby, which the latter won and in 

 which the former had a great public favourite, who w#s 

 nowhere in the race ! 



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