210 ON RUNNING HORSES 



pofed ; and to enable a gentleman, who may 

 have made a private match for his amufe- 

 ment, to train his horfe with propriety at 

 home, if he fhall fo chufe. A little phyfic, 

 a week's interval from the fetting of it, and 

 two or three Tweats, will fit a horfe (previoufly 

 at hard meat) for this entertaining, but lefs 

 important bufinefs of the courfe. The advan- 

 tage in this private way, of poffellmg a racer 

 which fhews little or no blood to common ob- 

 fervers, mufl be obvious to every one ; fuch an 

 one for example, as the gelding Bauble, by 

 Lord Chedworth's Snap, which was mafler of 

 twenty ftone, and appeared like a little pack- 

 horfe, or a Suffolk horfe adapted to carry ham- 

 pers, and yet won many times at Newnciarket, 

 and a number of country plates. 



On the fubjcft of betting I fhall be filent, 

 from total inexperience ; never, to the beft of 

 my recolleftion, having made a dozen bets in 

 my life, and the few I really made, being of the 

 mofl trifling amount. I fhall therefore refer 

 the reader to Card's Guide to the Turf, fold 

 by Weatherby ; and to the Academies at New- 

 market and Tatterfal's, where, if his pockets be 

 well lined, he will not fail to meet with able 

 tutors. Inlleadofa tedious, and probably in- 

 fufficient lefture on betting, I will prefent a 

 betting anecdote ; which may perhaps never 

 before have been in print, or have been long 



forgotten. 



