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Sir Charles that they thought Chifney spoke very 

 fair. 



My motive for waiting with Escape may be col- 

 lected from the foregoing statement (in page 48) ; 

 as for instance, where Escape carried such extra 

 ordinary high weights, giving Baronet 20lb. and 

 beating him ; and yet Baronet, after having been 

 beaten on this trial by Escape, won every thing 

 he ran for that summer ; for, on the Tuesday 

 after that trial, (28th June l/Ql,) Baronet won 

 the Otlands stakes at Ascot Heath, forty-one 

 nominations, one hundred guineas each, against 

 eighteen of the best picked horses that drew up 

 for starting. On the IQth of July he won the 

 King's plate, at Winchester. On the 4th of 

 August he did the same at Lewes ; and on the 

 24th of August he did the like at Canterbury. 



And on the 6th of October 1791, Baronet won 

 the King's plate at Newmarket, beating Coriander 

 at even weights. On the 20th, therefore, of this 

 same month (October 1790' I particularly wished 



Escape 



