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I have before remarked, in page 68, that when 

 His Royal Highness gave me orders to make very 

 strong play with Escape ; my thoughts pressed so 

 fast upon my mind, that I could not express my- 

 self to my own satisfaction. I then wished to 

 have said to His Royal Highness, that I should 

 like for Escape to wait were he quite fit to iTin ; 

 but as I was doubtful about his being quite fit to 

 run, it became the more necessary for him to 

 wait. I seldom troubled His Royal Highness 

 about the horses, trials, weights, &c. as he never 

 appeared to me anxious to be informed of these 

 particulars, leaving such matters to the judgment 

 and direction of Mr. W. Lake. 



I had always waited with Escape in all his races 

 I rode him ; neither do I remember ever having 

 received orders how to ride Escape, but once 

 before these orders that His Royal Highness 

 gave me in person, as I have before related^ 

 but when Escape ran with Skylark in the Spring 



Mr. 



