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When I told Colonel Leigh that this said BIoss 

 and P'rank More were improper characters for 

 him to employ in training the Prince's horses, I 

 got myself much insulted. In 1800, when at 

 Lewes I was going to ride the Prince's horse 

 Knowsley for the Ladies' Plate, and just before 



saddling, that I attended on ■ for my 



orders how to ride, this Bloss and Frank More 

 were instantly called for aloud amongst the gen- 

 tlemen and bettors, to give orders how I was to 

 ride Knowsley. Directly on seeing I was to have 

 orders from such characters, my brow came 

 nearly over my eyes. It required a great general 

 to give perfect orders for Knowsley in this race ; 

 to know both horses' fortes, the course they were 

 going to run, each horse's condition, what they 

 were best able to bear, and how Knowsley was to 

 be sailed on all variety of changes that might occur 

 in running. The mare, his greatest antagonist, 

 had a bent sinew on her fore leg, and not well 

 to run, and Knowsley was not within twenty-one 

 pounds of his best form of running. Bloss and 



Frank 



