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at those times liave named about the condition 

 of horses, and the effects of it, to any person 

 for one thousand guineas. 



Before I mentioned to His Royal Highness that 

 I wished to have my orders to ride from any 

 other person than Mr. W. Lake, I had wished 

 His Royal Highness to discharge all his people 

 that belonged to his race-horse stable. 



I was informed the Duke of Bedford found it 

 difficult to match his horses without allowing 

 weight for my riding them. 



Another nobleman, a great acquaintance of the 

 Duke of Bedford's, and who is now a member 

 of the Jockey Club, told me that he had such a 

 high opinion of my riding, that he had made up 

 his mind a long time back never to make a match 

 where I had to ride against him. I told his lord- 

 ship, that he, or the Jockey Club, ought to give 

 me three hundred guineas a year, for, because I 

 was thought to ride better than others, I found 

 I was not to be used. 



When 



