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that he knows can come from end to end; and 

 as he also knows that we keep this same horse 

 principally for the purpose of telling us a true 

 story about our two and three-year olds ; and has 

 on this same horse, and for the same purpose, 

 occasionally gone before the two colts in ques- 

 tion ; and will have to do the same sort of thing 

 at Newmarket, previous to our trying them 

 there at their last trial, as well also as at Epsom, 

 when we are about to finish them for their races, 

 he must have a pretty good idea of what we ex- 

 pect from our colts — we must not, therefore, if 

 Tom chooses to stand his money, shut him out 

 of the betting. Although none of those three 

 boys know any thing of the weights they have 

 been riding in private, yet they have a tolerable 

 idea of what weights their colts ought to have 

 carried in their trials, so as to enable us to 

 judge, with some degree of accuracy, how they 

 may be likely to run in public — I must there- 

 fore, when talking to those boys, shew them that 

 I am placing some confidence in them. 



