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at an outside price, tlie Manchester November Han- 

 dicap. I own I was to blame in letting my temper 

 get the better of my reason, and if one can it is 

 always better to take a " set back " with a philoso- 

 phic calm, either natural or assumed. Still, there 

 was some excuse for the personal ebullition in the 

 circumstance that if one man had ever tried to serve 

 another that man was myself to Hall. Through me 

 he obtained £500 for the services of his boy, Morgan, 

 for Sutton in the Cambridgesliire. This was in 

 1875, and three years later I arranged that Mr. 

 Gretton should give him the same sum when Morgan 

 rode Isonomy to victory in the same race, while had 

 Harbinger annexed theCesarewitch another thousand 

 would have gone into his pockets. Yet again, I sold 

 him Pascarel for 500 sovs., to Mr. Fred Gretton ; so 

 that, in one way and another, I was continually serv- 

 ing his interests. Consequently, considering our 

 relations, and taking into account that the benefits 

 were, so far, all one-sided, I thought he might have 

 " opened his mouth " about Golden Drop. Moreover, 

 he had plenty of opportunities. Thus at the Derby 

 Meeting I said to him : 



" Harry, you'll win at Manchester." 



" Perhaps I shall, and perhaps I shan't. I haven't 

 backed him. And if I back him I want some one 

 to do the business who can hedge the money if I don'fe 



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