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wait for me at starting. Mr. W. Lake and Mr. 

 Vauxhall Clark must sufter with mc^ for I dared 

 not to go to the betting stand to tell them, and 

 no person was at hand that I could send with such 

 a message. Directly the horses started there was 

 a very great change in Creeper's going ; he could 

 not get his legs out, which I attributed to the 

 swelling of his carcase. It happened that there 

 was but little running made till they came near 

 home ; and when they came near the grand stand. 

 Walnut and Creeper had a run together ; and 

 Creeper had evidently the best of that run ; and 

 yet, notwithstanding the short distance in. Creeper 

 was beaten three or four lengths. 



I believe that Creeper must have been beaten 

 a great way if there had been tolerable good 

 mnmng made all the way. I lost upon Creeper, 

 jn this race, two hundred guineas. I betted all 

 this money with Mr. Lake and Mr. Vauxhall 

 Clark. After Creeper was beaten by Walnut, it 

 was said that I had lost the race by trying him ; 

 this I think is most likely to be sent out by those 

 E that 



