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detecting, exposing and defeating the atrocious frauds which have been brought to 

 lio-ht." Similar cases of dishonesty occurred on other occasions, as when Bloodstone 

 was disqualified, after winning the New Stakes at Ascot and being proved to be over 

 two years old. The in-and-out running of Mr. Crockford's Rafan also resulted in two 

 men being warned off. The very next year the Stewards were investigating the case 

 of Mr. Gully's Old England, who was third in Merry Monarch's Derby, and the truth 

 about him does not even yet seem clear. Other cases there were, perhaps not so 

 sinister, as the supposed personation of Bend Or by Tadcaster, which is always 

 remembered, but was never proved ; or the suppositious Tontine who won the French 

 Derby of 1840 and turned out to be the English Herodias -parallels to which latter 



instance may be found 

 in 1810, when Hylas 

 posed as a " b. g. by 

 Worthy " at Warwick, 

 or Tybalt tried to run at 

 York in 1825 as Mr. 

 Rowlav's Tom Paine. 



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Nor were these malprac- 

 tices, which lasted in one 

 form or another to the 

 verv end of the nine- 



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teenth century, limited to 

 mishandling the horses ; 

 "Anticipation" (1812) by " Hatnliii-toninn." for, as will be mentioned 



later, the grim story of Palmer the poisoner reveals the fact that a reckless and clever 

 man will not stick at murdering his friend if he is driven to ruin by racing in the 

 wrong spirit. 



Many more such cases might be added to this incomplete catalogue ; out enough 

 has been said to suggest that the clays when Samuel Chifney, Senior, was examined 

 by Sir Charles Bunbury did not stand alone in their possibilities of iniquity, and that 

 both before and after his time worse crimes were known upon the Turf than were 

 ever imputed either to him or his employers. At any rate, acting upon evidence that 

 has not yet reached the public, the Stewards of the Jockey Club let it be known that 

 if Chifney rode the Prince's horses no gentleman would start against them. It is not 

 likely that His Royal Highness either benefited by a villain's malpractices, or 



