A HANDICAP. 



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" I still think that if the ground were soft, and 

 at light weights, 5 stone 7 lb. each, tried a mile at 

 Goodwood up that steep hill. Gaper would be an 

 awkward customer for all the horses enorag-ed in 

 the Derby, unless it is ' A British Yeoman.' 



" I enclose a handicap I have made, which, if 

 Gaper were in his Goodwood form, and the ground 

 were soft, and he could do with 8 stone 7 lb. on 

 his back what he can with 5 stone 5 lb., would not, 

 I think, come off against him. — I am, yr. obed. 

 servt. G. Bentinck. 



