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race-ground, and called me to them, and signi- 

 fied to me that I had written an anonymous letter 

 to the Prince, that Escape and Magpie were both 

 to lose at Ascot in i790, as Hindley was to ride 

 the in ; and that they would all leave the Prince if 

 there was not a change made. I told them I 

 thought it very necessary there should be a change 

 made. " I am not one of those envious, coward- 

 *' ly rascals to stab thus at a person in the dark." 



Mr. Lake and Neale told the Prince that I had 

 lost His Highness's race on the IQth of October 

 1790. I had rode the Prince's horse Fitzwilliam 

 for a Stakes, thirteen subscribers, one hundred 

 guineas each, and was beat by Lord Grosvenor's 

 horse Rhadamanthus. It was as much as Rha- 

 damanthus could do just to beat him ; and di- 

 rectly the race was over, that 1 was walking back 

 to scale, his Royal Highness said, " Sam Chif- 

 " ney, Mr. Lake and Frank Neale say you have 

 ^'^ lost this race by riding." I then wished His 

 Royal Highness not to let any thing induce him 



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