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second day's running was confessing to His Royal 

 Highness that he had chose to put bad construc- 

 tions upon what he had heard me say to His Royal 

 Highness on the day before, why I thought Es- 

 cape was beat on that day, and why I thought 

 Escape would win on the following day. 



Some years after this, Casborne was dismissed 

 at Newmarket for supposing him poisoning 

 horses for their races ; being concerned with those 

 breaking into noblemen's stables, the night before 

 running, to give the horse,' as was supposed, 

 opium balls ; and it is believed Casborne had done 

 it for many years. 



Mr. W. Lake, Neale, and Casborne had the 

 management of His Royal Highness's horses till 

 His Royal Highness left the turf in 1791. 



In 1797? it vvas reported among the noblemen 

 and gentlemen of the turf, that poison balls had 

 been given by Casborne to Escape before he ran 

 with Coriander, Skylark, and Pipeator, on the 

 20th of October 1791. 



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