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rarely found mixed up in these affairs, 

 still less do they patronise them, and I 

 consider it a high enconium to be passed on 

 genuine Sportsmen with truth, that in ninety- 

 nine cases in a hundred they totally set their 

 face against them. We must, therefore, look 

 for the habitual match maker against time 

 among low horse dealers, scouted by respectable 

 men in the trade ; low blacklegs, not counte- 

 nanced by the best of the betting men; in 

 short, a fellow who is rarely seen where 

 respectable men are to be found, and only 

 emerging from his unknown haunts when coming 

 before the public to perpetrate his detestable 

 practices. 



