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and let him go as well as he thought he was able, 

 so as not to knock him up, for Traveller was a 

 very free runner : and after he had run two miles 

 as fast as he was very well able, I went up to him 

 with Creeper, and told the boy to pull his horse 

 and gallop him very gently the same way back. 

 I then kept a great way behind him. In my opi- 

 nion this running was much less fatigue to Creeper 

 than the gallop he would or should have had this 

 same morning if he had not run with Traveller : 

 and this same morning, viz. the 23d of August 

 1791, I learned that Mr. W. Lake had matched 

 Traveller, on the over-night, against Cavendish, 

 to run in the Spring following, over Newmarket, 

 for five hundred guineas ; and on this same day, 

 when I saw Mr. Lake I toid him I thought he 

 was bold in matcliing Traveller at this time against 

 any horse. Mr. Lake replied, " If the Prince 

 ^•' don't like to stand the match, I'll stand every 

 '' guinea of it myself." I then observed to 

 Mr. Lake his motive for matching him probably 

 was from his last trial at Newmarket, in the 



spring ; 



