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a place, hear that he was heaten, the public odds 

 are made out upon his running, thus they are high 

 against him. Such men as I specify bet with these 

 odds against the horse : let them ask his trainer ; he 

 could, if he chose to do so, tell them a far different 

 tale. But we will suppose a case : a colt runs twice, 

 or oftener, and has been beaten ; the horse that beat 

 him has in his turn been beaten by another in a 

 similar race ; the colt has to start against him. 

 "Well," says the man disposed to bet, ''here is a 

 certain thing, this colt has been beaten by one horse 

 who has been beaten by another ; why, they must be 

 mad to start him under such circumstances." He puts 

 the pot on, and to his utter dismay, from thinking 

 he has a few hundreds clean in his pocket, he finds 

 his pocket is cleaned out by the transaction. He 

 wonders what it is, how can it have occurred ? here 

 is a colt that has been beaten by a horse that has 

 been beaten by another, yet this colt goes away and 

 beats this winning horse handsomely ; it must be a 

 sell, a take-in, a monstrous piece of robbery, con- 

 cocted to mislead the public, and by doing so, to put 



