136 HINTS TO HORSEMEN ; OK, 



and albeit he was a baker, no trotting-mateh came 

 off within a reasonable distance that he was not at, 

 and was often called on to officiate as a jock on such 

 occasions ; and well he looked, and well he rode. He 

 had a very light cart, in which he went round to his 

 customers ; in this he always drove one kind of horse 

 — light cobs of about fourteen hands, all of them 

 more or less trotters, or, at least, very fast. AVho- 

 ever wanted anything of this sort, for miles round, 

 applied to the baker ; his horses were always good- 

 looking, and always in capital condition. How or 

 where he got them, no one knew ; but no sooner 

 was one sold, but he was supplied by another of the 

 same sort. He was as particular in his harness as 

 any London gentleman, and this was turned out as 

 bright as Day and Martin could make it ; so his horses 

 lost no advantage that such setting-off could give 

 them. He dealt in no Smithfield bargains, not he ; 

 he would ask, and get oftentimes, fifty guineas for 

 one of his goers ; and, further, he occasionally took 

 in the less-knowing by producing a wonder, of whose 

 capabilities he wisely said nothing while using him 



