Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1809-06-09

At meeting of the New Market Iockey
! Club, on Thursday evening, the 18th of
! May 1909. Present
| TIE President.
I Thomas Watkins, John Nicholas, Jr.
WIN. K. Johnson, William Archer,
Richard Bate, Miles Selden,
Samuel Butler, John ]. rhweatt.
CHRISTI L Jones, John Avery,
William Wynne. Wade Mosby,
Robert Spotswood, Daniel Epes.
THE Jockey Club, impressed with the
opinion, that Thomas Goode, a member of
said Club, has so conducted himself i'm the
race OK this day as to require their inyesti-
cation inasmuch, as it has been suggested,
that he the said Goode has been guilty OF
running horse for the proprietor's Parse,
with IA los less weight each heat, than the
rules of the course require. The Club
proceeded to examine .Aierandc, Goode,
rider for the said Goode, Edvard Major,
weigher for the days race, William .frcher,
member of the CLUB, and heard the said
Goode IN his own stiiication-whereup-
on,
RESOLVED unanimously, That it is the o.
pinion of this Club, that the said Thomas
Goode, be acquitted of all censure on the
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| the fraud wherewlth he is charged, was
| committed by his grooms without the know
ledge OF the said Goode or his rider.
RESOLVED further, That Ped and Hif,
| the property of the said Goode, implicated
in the foregoing charge, be hereafter cx
cluded from attending any horses which
may run over this course, in any race UNI
der the controul of this club.
Attest,
C. HARRISON, Pres's,
DANIEL ErEs, Sec'ry.
| WHEREAS a report injurious to nv
character, has been industrously circulated
charging me with fraudulent design in
| running my horse in the last races at New
M arket. In Justification to myself and nv
friends, am induced to make the follow
ing plain statement of facts - Being enga
ged in the said races, and my rider weigh
ing only 80 lbs. l applied 10 Mr.. Read,
Saddier, IN Petersburg, sometime in the
month OF March last, to make a saddle, In :
ned with lead, to weigh about 30 lbs. which
made the weight for fnnr years old colts
and being also engaged in race in Motto
way, to run three years old colts, the weight
being 30 lbs. l wrote to Mr. Read to max q
another saddle like the first, dead excep.
tcdl which he had Informed me would
weigh or lbs. My meaning in wishing
made like the first was principally as to
1.-THE shape, having made choice of a saddle
I tree that liked, and not for the nefarious
purpose that has been unjustly ascrioed to
me, by those who are ever willing to turn
up the blacklist side of scandal.
In running my horse Bob Tail, in the se-
cond days race, | depended upon my groom,
an old and experienced hand, to saddle and
start the horse, and was not present N.Y..
self, as was fully proven to the satisfaction
( OF the Jockey Club.-It appears that the
saddles were shifted, but solemnly aver,
that it was not done with my knowledge OF
Consent. Indeed shall ever believe that I
lost the race by that unfortunate circum..
stance. My horse won the Cd ana Sd heats
with such ease, that little doubt remains of
his ability to have won the race with the
proper weight. The purse of that day was
worth only 225 dollars, a sum too inconsi-
/ derable to tempt even the hand of a feon.
/ With this candid statement, together with
Mr.. Reads certificate below, hope the
public will be satisfied that nothing impro-
per was intended by me.
THOMAS GOODR