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from his race-horses, and said Frank Neale had 

 been telling him again that I had lost the race 

 with Fitzwilliam. I told His Royal Highness that 

 Neale was a weak man. It did not appear to me 

 that thei'e was any offer made to have them 

 matched. I did not feel myself satisfied, as the 

 Prince seemed to be nettled about my being beat, 

 from telling me so often about the same thing. 

 As for Mr. Lake and Neale's saying and pretend- 

 ing that Fitzwilliam was able to beat Rhadaman- 

 thus, why Rhadamanthus was rated to be one of 

 the first runners of his years. It was three to 

 one upon him against the field ; and Fitzwilliam 

 had been tried, a short time before the 8th of Oc- 

 tober, against Smoker and Chambooe, the same 

 course these horses had been running, and Cham- 

 booe had beat Fitzwilliam an astonishing way. 

 Chambooe was beat easily by Smoker, and 

 Smoker was thought not so good a runner as Rha- 

 damanthus. But it seemed as if Mr. Lake and 

 Neale had lost sight of this trial. It must be 



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