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lliat have been brought up under coblers, there is 

 much room for me to know more of the horses 

 being fit or unfit for running, that they train, than 

 they do themselves, if nothing unfair. I don't 

 talk to grooms about horses ; what I Iiave to say 

 about liorses, I say to the noblemeii and gentle- 

 men. This has occasioned me to be very much 

 hated and abused by those of this profession and 

 their colleagues ; noblemen and gentlemen, how- 

 ever, might soon stop those abuses. When their 

 servants are represented to them that their con- 

 duct is scandalous, they should make a strict 

 enquiry into their conduct, and if the servant is 

 in fault, he should be discharged ; if not, the ras- 

 cally author should be given up, and means used 

 to make him suffer* Dutiful servants might then 

 live with comfort. 



The report of Escape's having been poisoned 

 for the race on the 20th of October 1791 brings 

 to my mind what Mr. Hodges, the great bettor, 

 told me since this race of Escape's, viz. that if I 



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