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April 1787. Ontlie July following Goodison en- 

 gaged me to rid^e the Duke of Queensberry's liorse 

 Mulberry against Lord Clermont's Markho, and 

 Mulberry was beat easily; and it appeared to me 

 that Mulberry was not able to go a proper run- 

 ning pace In any part of this race ; and when I 

 came from scales, James Barton, Esq. told me 

 that Goodison had been telling the gentlemen 

 that I had rode Mulberry booty ; and Mi-. Bar- 

 ton said he told him if he dared to say so agam he 

 would ram his stick down his throat. Goodison 

 had been at these sort of abuses, and others, to 

 me, for a long time before this, that it made 

 gentlemen afraid to employ me. This Goodison 

 insulted me in public, that I rode Escape booty on 

 the 20th of October 1791. I have reasons to be- 

 lieve this Goodison is the original cause of the 

 Duke of Bedford and the Prince of Wales hav- 

 ing been thus troubled and disturbed concerning 

 me in my riding, by Goodison having been capa- 

 ble of imposing upon the public, reporting me to 

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