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have been won by a Mr, C. Browne's * b. g. by 

 Worthy,' but ' on an investigation before the 

 Jockey Club at Newmarket, it was ascertained 

 that the horse entered by the description of a 

 " b. g. by Worthy, four years old," was the bay 

 gelding Hylas, six years old.' 



Another case occurred in 1825, at York, when 

 a stop was put to a match that should have been 

 run between Mr. Rowlay's professedly half-bred 

 Tom Paine and (? Mr. Longden's) Bogtrotter, on 

 the ground that the former horse was — as it 

 turned out on investigation that he certainly was 

 — a thoroughbred horse, whose proper name was 

 Tybalt. 



And no doubt there had been many other 

 instances of ' personation,' but they all sank into 

 utter insignificance before the variety of swindles 

 detected and suspected in connection with the 

 Derby in which Running Rein and Leander 

 (Messrs. Goodman and Lichtwald) were so very 

 conspicuously concerned. 



The next little article in the way of scandal 

 was what is known as 'the Old England case,' in 

 the very next year after ' the Running Rein case,' 

 and, as it has lately been revived by the Duke of 



