THE TURF. 
perhaps never be known, except to those who made him 
so. Mr. Batson, his owner, like ^Emilius Scaurus, the 
consul, stood on his character, and made no defence ; 
but, as a St. Leger horse is the property of the public, 
we think the public had a right to some kind of 
explanation under Mr. Batson's hand. He might have 
followed the example of the late Colonel King, in the 
Bessy Bedlam robbery at the same place, and for the 
same stakes, in 1828. The Colonel sent a statement 
of all he knew of the foul transaction to a London 
newspaper, leaving the public to judge for themselves 
from the facts he detailed. Neither did the St. Leger 
of 1834 pass off with this single fraud. A bet of a 
thousand guineas was made by two persons, renowned 
on the turf, whom we call A. and B. A. backed the 
field against certain horses named by B., of which 
Touchstone, the winner, was not one. B., however, 
claimed the bet, and produced his list in which Touch- 
stone, the winner, was named at the bottom of it. A. 
also produced his list in which Touchstone the winner 
was not named by B. ; and was therefore of course a 
winner for him. The Jockey Club was resorted to, 
and the following was the result of their investiga- 
tion : " The name of Touchstone," said Mr. Wilson, 
the father of the turf, " certainly appears in B.'s list, 
and apparently written with the same ink. Now my 
old friend Robarts the banker told me, there is a species 
of ink that can be made to match any shade which that 
liquid may exhibit, if examined by daylight ; but if put 
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