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running horses palpably unfit—for they but receive and do 
not give instructions; and whilst they alone are censured, 
others receive the benefit. 
The above argument will find illustration and corroboration | 
in the following incident. 
A gentleman, who shall be nameless, asked me to buy him 
a yearling. I did, and gave 300 guineas for one, the only one 
I bought for him. As a two-year-old he was tried in the pre- 
sence of his owner and won very easily—in fact, was found to 
be a good horse. He ran a few days after with a stable boy 
in the saddle and was not placed. I was not present. With- 
out saying one single word, or even hinting at such a thing, 
the owner did not allow the horse to return to my stable, but 
sent him to his own. Shortly afterwards the rest of his 
horses were taken away, his retirement from the turf, which 
I knew was a fabrication, being the colourable pretext for 
such action. The horse next year won the Derby, trained 
by astable boy cajoled from my establishment at the time 
of the removal of the horses. What could this act imply 
but dishonesty on the part of the jockey or myself, or both? 
The horse, it should be said, when he ran as a two-year-old 
amongst ‘‘hacks,” was not backed for a shilling and was well 
and undoubtedly ridden to the orders of the owner, who, after 
reaping the reward of such conduct in this one horse at the 
ruinous expense of the jockey and trainer, never won a race 
after that I remember, and retired in reality from the turf. 
In another case, after Dulcibella had won the Czsarewitch, 
I claimed her half brother, Romulus, for 300 guineas, and sold 
him at the same price to a very wealthy young gentleman, 
“who,” it was said, “ was desirous of training his horses with 
me.” In due course, Romulus was tried and found to be a 
good horse over a distance of ground, and entered for the 
