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thirty miles farther, if she had been required to do so. He also 
said that he did not consider it any remarkable feat for a 
horse to do 117 miles in twenty hours. The pony was sent 
to his stables the following morning, and one of his boys 
exercised it. 
Cross-examined. — He had heard from the defendant that 
he was going to do a match against time with the pony, and 
that he was to drive to London and back in twenty hours, 
and he remarked to him that it was a very trifling thing. 
The pony had a leader before it when it came into Oxford. 
The leader might have been a butcher’s cart, but he could 
not say. He did not observe that the pony-cart was dragged 
along by the butcher’s cart, but he would not swear it was 
not. 
Mr. Irby asked the witness if he could explain how it was 
that the pony, being so “ fresh ” as he represented it, it 
should be necessary for it to be dragged along in this 
manner ? 
The witness said that he did not know that the two carts 
w r ere attached to each other ; he could not see ; it was dark 
at the time, and he could give no further answer to the 
question. 
The certificates of two veterinary surgeons were admitted 
as evidence by Mr. Thomas; but they did not assist the 
defendant’s case, as they were merely to the effect that they 
had examined the pony a day or two after the match, and 
that they observed no appearance of wheals upon the body 
of the animal, and that it did not appear at all injured by 
the feat it had performed. 
The room was then cleared, and the magistrates, after 
a short deliberation, directed that the public should be re- 
admitted. They then announced their decision to be, that 
the charge contained in the information had been established, 
and they adjudged the defendant to pay a fine of 40s., and 
ll. 135. costs. 
The fine and costs were immediately paid. 
