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nearly as good, certainly within 3 lb. or 4 lb. as 

 good, as Pompey ; and allowing Cotherstone to be 

 able to give 10 lb. to Pompey, if, as we imagined, 

 Gaper could give a stone to St Jean d'Acre, he*^ 

 would have been a dead heat with Cotherstone./ 

 Cotherstone can give a stone to St Jean d'Acre, 

 but I should say not 21 lb., and that is just what 

 we thought to be Gaper's form. Reckoning also 

 the Fidelity filly at 16 lb. worse than Conquest, 

 St Jean d'Acre can give Conquest 7 lb., and 

 Maccabteus being said to be able to give 7 lb. 

 also, St Jean d'Acre could have given 7 lb. to 

 Conquest, and ought to be as good as Maccabaeus at 

 even weights. I presume Peeping Tom is 5 lb. 

 or 7 lb. better than Conquest : this would bring 

 Bramble to a par with Peeping Tom, and make 

 him 7 lb. better than Conquest. 



" Colonel Peel tells me Murat can give 17 or 19 

 lb. to Pooksnest. 



" I am very glad Jerry Sneak started, and thus 

 won your £20 for you, but I am terribly chapfallen 

 at this lamentable exposure of Gaper. — I am, yr. 

 obed. sert., G. Bentinck." 



Two days later his Lordship's hopes began to 

 revive : — 



" Newmarket, Saturday Morning, 8 a.m. 



, " Kent,^ — I am quite satisfied now why Gaper 

 ran so badly on Thursday : the fact is, his legs 

 and joints failed. I thought at the time he 



