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Mr. Bullock had Lord Clermont's rider to ride 

 Toby, and Toby won. Buzzard was beat a great 

 way by several horses. Toby became a great fa- 

 vourite before starting, and the odds got high 

 against Buzzard. I won eleven hundred guineas 

 on Toby this race. Mr. Cauty betted me seven 

 hundred to forty-nine, and four hundred to 

 twenty-four. There were fifty-six nominations at 

 one hundred guineas eacli in this race ; and 

 twenty picked horses started, 



I see it as a necessity to name this meritorious- 

 ness, by way of proof against any more of those 

 bad constructions that might have lurked in some 

 minds, to say that Chifney's was imposture, where 

 he said to the Prince of Wales, on the 20th of 

 October 179^? why Escape was beat, and why he 

 thought Escape would win on the following day. 

 Seen in page 75. 



This sort of apologizing of mine for the good 



horse Escape, I saw was to the field greek. Had 



I not been forced in my own defence, I would not 



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