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times ; and also admitted of a rider going on 

 the wrong side of it, (by mistake, of course), 

 but it lost the race and was one of the ways 

 in which such an event could be brought about 

 without any one being able to accuse a rider of 

 ought but, at the most, carelessness. He rode 

 beautifully and brought his horse in first, what 

 more could man do, or what could be said? 

 Nothing but pay. 



The circular, or whatever shaped course it 

 might be, provided the horses came in where or 

 whereabout they started from, was to the public 

 a great desideratum and improvement certainly, 

 to the better it was far more. He was not 

 disposed to see his jockey ride four miles out 

 of his sight in a race on which he had money 

 depending. How could he tell but that the 

 jock who had agreed with him to lose a race 

 might have his private bets that he won, might 

 have even employed others to get bets against 

 his horse from the very confederate himself. 



