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about ; but he was, wliat he should call, very lame then, and he 
did i\ot think was fit to run for the Derby with any chance of 
winning. The lameness had been apparently caused by a slip 
or stretching of the part. There was no external swelling. He 
thought the horse might as well not have been walked in the pad- 
dock, and not be seen by those who were standing by, even al- 
though they knew nothing of the lameness unless their attention 
was directed to it. He certainly should not have given directions 
that a horse should be walked about when he was lame. It was 
contrary to his direction that the horse was walked about in the 
paddock. According to what he has heard, the horse continued 
lame for about five weeks ; but he did not see him again. 
Montgomery Dilly, the trainer to Mr. Greville, described 
the lameness of the horse both at Littleton and at Epsom. He 
told no one that the horse was lame — it was not usual for trainers 
to do so. When the horse first came out he walked lame; but 
no one that did not know that he was lame would have observed 
it. He did not appear lame except when he was trotted. He was 
trotted on that morning. Mr. Greville told him, about nine o’clock 
on Tuesday morning, that Canadian would not start: but it was 
not his duty to say any thing about the matter. He did not 
hear of any bets made against him on that morning. He did 
not publicly hear of Canadian’s being withdrawn until one or two 
o’clock on Tuesday. It was, in fact, only about one o’clock that 
the withdrawal of the horse was generally known. 
There may be no legal enactment to compel the owner of the 
horse to give the earliest notice of the withdrawal of him ; but the 
law of courtesy, if no other, certainly required it. Mr. Greville 
knew full well at an early period on Tuesday, if not before, that 
his horse would not run. The notification of this should have 
appeared on Tuesday morning at the latest, and should have 
been made as public as possible, and at the earliest moment that 
was practicable, instead of Canadian parading the paddock with 
the others as if nothing had been the matter with him. It was 
this want of courtesy which led to the complaints that were na- 
turally made at Epsom, and that terminated in the trial at Guild- 
ford, where a verdict of £250 — the damages being laid at £5000 
— was obtained against the editors of the Sunday Times . 
We will, however, leave this part of the subject, and refer to 
the evidence that was given by certain noblemen and others on 
that trial. We give it without comment. 
Mr. Charles Wetherby, Secretary to the Jockey Club, had been 
speaking of a bet between Colonel Peel and Lord Charles Fitzroy. 
He says, the decisions of the club are supposed to be binding 
