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the Jockey Club took no action. I beg to inform his Grace and those who approve his methods, that I care no more for their annoyance than I do for the muddy-minded lucubrations of Mr. JEREMY and his servile tribe of moon-calves. I have public duties to perform, and if, in the course of my comments on racing, I should find myself occasionally compelled to run counter to the imbecile prejudices of some of the aristocratic patrons of the turf, I can assure my readers that I shall not flinch from the task. I therefore repeat that, in the middle of last month, the Duke of DUMPSHIRE killed two trainers, and that up to the present time the Jockey Club have not enforced against him the five-pound penalty which is specially provided by their rules for offences of this sort. When Mr. JACOBS, who has no aristocratic connections, ventured to lynch a rascally tout on Newmarket Heath last year, he was made to pay up at once. The contrast is suggestive. A lot of jannering nonsense has been talked about _Bazaar_ by the Will-o'-the-Wisps who mislead the long-suffering public in turf matters. _Bazaar_ is by _Rector_ out of _Church Mouse_, and in his pedigree are to be found such well-known roarers as _Boanerges_ and _Hallelujah Sal_--not much of a recommendation to anybody except Mr. JEREMY. His own performances are worse than contemptible. As a two-year old, he was placed second at eight stone to _Candlestick_ in the Warmington Open Welter Handicap. After that he sprang a curb in the middle of his back, and the fools who train him actually brought him out to run in the All-aged Selling Plate at Ballymacwhacket. He won the race easily enough of course, but only an impostor, whose head was stuffed with horsehair, would attach the least importance to that. Since then he has eaten two pairs of spurs, a halter, and half of a jockey, which scarcely looks like winning races. I have now relieved my conscience on the matter, so if the puddle-brains wish to back him, their loss must lie at their own doors. The Marquis de MILLEPARDON has bought _Chowbock_ for L2000. At the last Epsom Meeting _Chowbock_ showed himself a fine pace-maker in an East wind, having cantered in from _Sister Mary_, who as good as walked round _Vilikins_ when the latter was being tried without his pastern-pad on the Cotswold Hills. At the same time it must be remembered, that _Sister Mary_ only got home by a length from _Smockfrock_, after having been double-girthed and
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