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I did my utmost to win this abovementioned 

 race upon Kitt Carr, and had the same desire of 

 winning this said race with Kitt Carr as I ever had 

 to win any race that I had ever rode. 



I thought his Lordship would mean for me to 

 stand my twenty guineas the same as his Lordship 

 betted^ and I offered to pay his Lordship twenty 

 guineas, but he did not choose to take it. 



In the year 1799 the Earl of Oxford assured 

 me that he had been informed that I rode his 

 horse Polyanthus booty, over Newmarket, for the 

 Oatlandsin 1795. 



I did my utmost to win the above race with 

 Polyanthus ; and I had the same desire of win- 

 ning this last-mentioned race with Polyanthus as 

 I ever had to win any race I ever rode. 



So little is the truth of the afFiiir known of Es- 

 cape's running, on the 20th of October i79U at 

 Newmarket, that at Brighton races 1800, there 

 was a young member of the Jockey Club, who 

 saw me ride there, and, with other members of 



the 



