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her form — a very common occurrence with filHes 

 severely trained at two years old ; that when 

 the discovery was made they reversed a com- 

 mission to back her for the One Thousand 

 Guineas at Newmarket ; and they declared that 

 Lord Hastings would not bring her out before 

 the Derby, on which he stood to win a great 

 stake, I am informed that when Lord Hastings 

 went to Danebury to see her gallop they made 

 excuses for her not to appear. If he had 

 seen her move, the bubble would have burst. 

 But the touts reported ' she was going like a 

 bird.' Ten pounds will make any horse fly if the 

 trainer wishes it to rise in the market. She has 

 never been able to gallop the whole year. Lord 

 Hastings has been shamefully deceived ; and 

 with respect to the scratching of The Earl, Lord 

 Westmoreland came up to town early on Tuesday 

 from Epsom to beseech Lord Hastings not to 

 commit such an act. On his arrival in Grosvenor 

 Square, he met Mr. Hill going to Weatherby's 

 with the order in his pocket to scratch The Earl, 

 and found Mr. Padwick closeted with Lord 

 Hastings. In justice to the Marquis of Hastings, 

 i state that he stood to win ^35,000 by The 

 Earl and did not hedge his stake money. Then 

 you will ask, ' why did he scratch him '^ ' What 

 can the poor fly demand from the spider in whose 

 web he is entangled } " 



In consequence of such an outspoken ex- 

 pression of his sentiments by Admiral Rous, there 

 ensued all round a very pretty quarrel. The 

 Marquis of Hastings replied that the letter of the 

 turf lawgiver was a tissue of misrepresentation 

 from first to last, and that no single circumstance 



