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or rank they may individually hold, a bonus for 

 their honest fidelity towards him. 



Those who keep racing establishments will 

 find the above method much more beneficial to 

 their interest, than to employ commission bet- 

 ters; men thus employed may act honestly in 

 executing the commission given to them, whe- 

 ther it be to bet against your own bad horses, 

 to pay the expense of keeping them, or whether 

 it be to bet in favour of your own good ones, to 

 win a large stake on them : still, however, a bet- 

 ting man having performed his commission in the 

 market according to the orders he may have re- 

 ceived from the owner of a stable of race horses, 

 (who may not like to bet against his own horses 

 himself), has it in his power, and can, if he 

 chooses, from knowing the secrets either the one 

 way or the other of such stables, commence 

 doing what business for himself he thinks will be 

 the most advantageous for his own book; and 

 after having done this, he can also, if he chooses, 

 furnish one or two of his particular friends with 

 the information thus acquired, which they will 

 well know how to turn to good account. 



I would recommend all noblemen and gen- 



