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ride booty, 8cc. that from his villainous conduct it 

 continually kept others to assist in keeping the 

 minds of the public ripe to think and say bad of 

 me. 



In the following October Meeting the Duke of 

 Bedford took me off his horse Fidget, after rid- 

 ing him the first of his four five hundred-guinea 

 matches against Lord Grosvenor's Meteor. This 

 was on the Monday ; and on the Friday follovi'- 

 ing, Mr. Tumor, a gentleman from Bexley in 

 Kent, told me that the conversation at all the 

 dinners that week had been about Fidget and Me- 

 teor's race, whether it was a hard race, an easy 

 race, or whether Fidget was beat at all *. This 

 soon showed itself farther. The same night the 

 Duke of Bedford told his groom, Mr. Matt Ste- 

 phenson, to go to Chifney, and tell him that the 

 Prince of Wales wished his jockey South to ride 



* The Duke's decease prevents me farther explaining what I 

 had said to his Grace, after Fidget's first race with Meteor. 



Fidget 



