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would have beaten Baronet three lengths or more 

 if Escape had waited. 



These four horses were all in the Oatlands 

 StakeSj at Ascot Heath, on the Tuesday following, 

 at the same weights as they carried in this trial ; 

 and to- run the same length of ground (two miles)* 

 Escape, 6 years old, carried. . . . Qst. lOlbs. 

 Baronet, 6 years old, carried. . . . 8st. 4lbs. 

 Pegasus, 7 years old, carried. . . . Qst. Olbs. 

 Smoker, 4 years old, carried. . . . 7st. Olbs. 

 After this trial I rode part of the way to Sutton 

 with Mr. W. Lake, and asked him to be pleased 

 to bet to the losing of fifty guineas for me that 

 Escape won the Oatlands, at Ascot Heath, on the 

 following Tuesday : begging him not to bet for 

 me on the next day, (being Thursday, and betting- 

 day atTattersall's,) but to wait till Monday, as that 

 was betting-day at Tattersall's again : for all the 

 people at Tattersall's would know that the horses 

 had been tried on that day, and that they would be 

 more fearful of betting on the very next day than 

 they would on the following Monday, and that I 



thought 



