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 and me for these twelve years to the vvorkl, run- 

 ning Escape a cheat. Sir Charles Bunbury's 

 stewardship to the Jockey Club was very singular 

 in other respects, A (ew years back that one of 

 the persons was sent to prison for breaking into 

 a nobleman's stable to poison a liorse for his race. 

 Sir Charles Bunbury's groom named it about at 

 Newmarket, that his master, Sir Charles Bun- 

 bury, had told him, that he dare not search too 

 far into this business concerning those persons 

 breaking into the stable to poison a horse for his 

 race, as he was afraid there were too many in the 

 Jockey Club that knew too much about it. 



Noblemen and gentlemen might bet from those 

 characters with no motives whatever but thinking 

 they were backing a person of very superior judg- 

 ment. 



Mr. E. X. Tumor's horse, Oscar, run at New- 

 market on the 17th and 1 8th of October 1798, 

 and the first of those races was as rascally a race 

 on Oscar's side, as horse can be made to run. 



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