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before he purchased the horse. We settled our joint account a 
week before the Epsom Races, and we then separated. If Cana- 
dian had run for the Derby and won, we should together have 
won £8000 — that is, my share, deducting our losses on the horse, 
would have been £4000. If Chatham or Seahorse had won, I 
should have been a larger winner than if Canadian had come in 
first. If £100 be laid to £300 on three horses, the result would 
be to us, if one of the horses won, that we should win £65. Our 
arrangement of betting was to lay odds against all the horses, so 
as to ensure a balance in our favour. 
Cross-examined by the Solicitor-General . — The way to effect 
this result was, to lay out £10,000 on all the horses, and if you 
get bets beyond the £10,000, then the better of the odds must 
win, because only one horse out of all that run can win the race. 
Before I joined books with Mr. Greville I made the bet of 
£10,000 to £300, with Lord Charles Fitzroy, against Canadian. 
I made the bet at Newmarket, and thought it a good one. When 
Mr. Greville and I joined books we bet £6000 to £345 against 
Canadian, and, of course, as Canadian was withdrawn, we won 
the £345, all the bets on Canadian having been lost in conse- 
quence of his having been withdrawn. If Canadian had won, we 
should have lost £6000. 
To Lord Abinger. — But, then, we should have won £14,345 
by our bets upon the entire of the horses ; so that, in fact, al- 
though we should have lost £6000 had Canadian won, still we 
should be gainers to the extent of £8345. I did not know that 
Canadian had'been withdrawn until Tuesday. On the Monday 
before the Derby 1 made three private bets against Canadian. 
One I made in the morning, when I bet £2000 to £700 against 
Canadian (as we understood the witness). On Monday I went 
over to Crockford’s, and took £300 to £200 that Canadian beat 
Auckland ; which, of course, turned out to be no bet, as neither 
horse started. By Attila winning we were nominally winners to 
the extent of £4164, that is, if all the bets were paid. (A laugh.) 
If Chatham had won, we should have been winners to the extent 
of £9000. And if Seahorse, which belonged to me, had come 
in first, we should have won £6000. 
1 never heard of the lameness of Canadian until about two 
o’clock on the Tuesday, the day before the Derby was run for. I 
agree in the statement, that if a horse is withdrawn before a race, 
all the bets that have been laid upon him are lost ; and I own I 
have heard complaints in respect of horses being withdrawn from 
a race. This circumstance has been a subject of complaint. It 
is the habit of persons backing horses to employ persons to make 
