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half forfeit. Mr. Swindell went to Messrs. Weatherby's 

 office in the evening and paid in two hundred-pound 

 notes, to make stakes for the match he had with Sir 

 Joseph the next clay, and straight away left for his 

 lodgings. Sir Joseph, coming immediately after the 

 other had departed, said to "VVeatherby : 



' Have you heard anything of Swindell's horse?' 



' No, Sir Joseph,' was the reply; 'but he has just 

 been here and paid his stake, so of course he intends 

 to run.' 



' Then,' says Sir Joseph, ' I pay forfeit,' and the 

 matter ended. 



Of the truth of this story there can be no manner 

 of doubt, for Mr. Swindell told me it himself, and 

 indeed approved what I have said when alluding to 

 it in my previous work. I may add, that he told Sir 

 Joseph of the ruse afterwards, but the baronet would 

 not believe him. 



I remember a very similar case, when Ruby, or a horse 

 that was run as Ruby, won the Althorp Park Stakes 

 in a way in which that race has never been won 

 before or after : the horse literally cantered in. He 

 was trotted and cantered back to the weighing en- 

 closure much in the same way that some of the horses 

 were for the Cambridgeshire in Catch J em Alive's year, 

 his saddle taken off and himself covered up with 

 immense cloths in the quickest possible manner, and 

 was never seen at Northampton again. Now, if the 

 jockey, owner, or trainer knew it was the right horse 



