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drawing too largely on his thoughts, and yet sufficiently so to 
keep him from napping. He may and will, out of his own 
immediate department, get “ a few wrinkles and with them 
will find himself better armed against the trainer, should 
chance bring him into his company ; as well as better able 
to cope with the sporting man with whom he is more likely 
to find himself associated. 
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THE LATE MATCH AGAINST TIME FROM OXFORD TO LONDON. 
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Burnham [Bucks) Betty Sessions , Jan. 17. 
The magistrates acting for this district, the Hon. G. T. 
Irby, the Rev. T. Carter, and R. R. Clayton, Esq., were 
occupied to-day for several hours in the hearing of an infor- 
mation, laid at the instance of the Society for the Prevention 
of Cruelty to Animals, through their Secretary, Mr. Thomas, 
against Mr. John Pickett, the landlord of the Plough Inn, 
Oxford, for having, as was alleged, cruelly ill-treated and 
over-driven a pony, during the performance of a match 
against time between Oxford and London, and back. 
Mr. Thomas appeared in support of the information, and 
the defendant, w-ho appeared in pursuance of the summons 
served upon him, was represented by Mr. I. J. Williams, the 
barrister. 
Mr. Thomas briefly stated the circumstances under which 
the complaint was made against the defendant ; and after 
observing that the cruelty which was imputed to him was 
carried out apparently with no other object than to enable 
him to win his wager, and other profit, through the suffering 
of the wretched animal that was under his control, he put 
the case to the bench as one in which they would be only 
doing their duty by committing the defendant to gaol, instead 
of inflicting a penalty. 
The following evidence was then adduced : — 
Sarah Howell deposed that she kept the toll-gate at Had- 
dington, about three miles on the London side of Oxford. 
She knew the defendant, and saw him on Sunday, the 19th 
December, and he told her he was going to drive his pony 
to London and back the Tuesday morning following, and 
he wished me to keep the gate open between one and two 
