New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-10
shall be reduced to dead level Of equally q. to The
chances Of wiDpirg.

The system is founded the knowledge, established
BY Ion experiment, that the best horse which ever
ran cen be reduced eqaahty, even to infsss,y.
in race with the wOr.t horse BY loading dove the
former viii extra weight. The truth and certainty Of
this sys,sm shown by the fact that ia the ls.s Ce-
| ssrewrch, Queen Bees a. wre,ched ssims - ever
rem urder the name of Q racer, carrying d pounds
| Der back, beat Fsheimsp, Poodle, Waflock, Saun-
ierer AID other horses the very best Of the very frst
oeer, completely ont Of sisht-they carrying rcspec-
lively l9 los, l0 los, III lbs. and IL lbs the Last
horse b. ing oply three yes-old which Is a Essd-
vsp,sge, when running sgsirs, older borses held to
| be squal 10 10 lbs ezra With Q,een Bees. three
,esr.old. in the FIST race, P,iorsss q kuryeuod.
csuyirg 20 lbs ard T. Hakin, three yesr.oll. car
yr the sane weight, 93lbs ran . dead nsas- shich
TACT elbows that, for . single heat, the % b. exrs
| weight in posed on Prioress and III Hakim reiacsd
them both bsir good sr nss to absolute equality with
Queer Bees, an exceedingly bad one. 10 the second
trial Prioress won BY ergth sad half only, and ~
Hok beat Queen Bess only by head, showing oou-
clusive, thst even in race Of heats, the t~ssty-
seven pounds given by FL Hakm to Qaeer Bees re-
duced thote two TO perfect and actual equs.y for,
as one horse must win ct last, nothing DO nearer
to perfect equality than when two horses fst
dead heat and then within few irches, in 81
two miles ard quarter Proress winning that second
race over the two being year older than her conf
pe,itols, only by length snd half, under the whip,
shows how perfectly accuis ate was the Judgment which
handicapped these three horses suce she only won ~
about whs, her extra year would give her In ability "a
cary weight that had she, too been iree
| yesr-eld, we might haze seen something nearly sp-
proacbirg to q cead heat, second tia g, be.~esn
these horses. The other comparative weighing 1.-THE
4 i a..a "A.
precisely the difference Of weight which would re-
duce FL Hskm and Queen Bees, and very nearly the
diff, r, nee ofweight which would reduce Pdore~, III
akim and Queen Bees /, perfect equality 20 thirty
six pounds was much more than the difference os
weight which would reduce Fisher nan 10 the level
of equality with Prioress and El HAkm; and
sixty three pounds much more than the differ.
| erce which would reduce the came hone 70
absolute equality with Queen Bess.
Now these differences are foutded on the handicap
per kno Wedge of the previous winnings osirgs Of
every borse-so that every time horss viss. s1trs
weight i. imposed upon him. and every time 10 loses,
mart Of tina, he carried s taken Off still further 10
lieve him. 1t is therefore, naturally to every mans
advantage that his horse should he considered bed
as possible in order to be weighted as lightly as posi-.
be and 90 to run under anages over bis compsts
tors euch as must secure him the victory. Now this
can be effected, easily by entering h,ue Tor ssus
Der of inferior races where the entrance fec Is nero
trie against very moderate or inferior horses ana
causing him to lose every race, by giving HE jockey
Instructions to pull him. scientifically or, in
other words TO hold him back, or oherwts misride
him 30 az 10 bring him to the end bad second OK
tfitd or LOT or Of any kind, to bad horses. By doicg
thus the horse becomes discredited the hsudcsppsr
&C Judges 10 him the lghtest most favorable weight.
in some great and valuable epstake handicap, %
Il at the owner knows from bis private ta, that he
is sure of winning; and ,ver, the odds, in The
betiirg are so high against his winning that ct very
email rsk the owner Of the animal, In the event OF
| his success realizes an imnen,e fortune.
Now. something like these circumstances hsve 90
cured IN the case of Proress and il has been boldly
irsinus.ed by one Journal, and dsrky suggested by
another that those circumstances did take place, or
may have taken place, by the connvancs OF NJ. Ton
Brock.
Hsreedless, Of course, to cay, that to cause his
hote to lose time after time, in order to gaio IN I'M
lust advantage, is swindliug and rascsity Of the
baret ard basett hind. 1t is not only obtainisg Odds
by means of false preenses, from the persons sgaose
whom II e fraudulent himself runs HE horse and
stakes his money in the race which he rims but -
papably robbiig every one OF the public, whom he
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chance of bis horse winning, in all the races TAca Ne
has Intentionally lost since his starting tho horse for
prize is public declare alton, in effect, that hs cot.
sders him to have schsrce Of winning, sndthath VIII
win If he can.
Now, in many races, since Goodwood, Proress Ass
run III, and been badly beaten by good and noders.s
horses. at favorable weghtsnsver, however, quite 60
favorable as those under which she ran 81 the Cesaxe-
Witch But she was never beaten by any horses iafe'
rior or merely equal to those, FL Hakiu and Queen
Bess, which the barely b a. for the CssGswitoh.
Corsequt nty, che was handicapped 20 fsvorsby tor
that race that che won ii and the odds we're 90 heavy
| sgailst her winning II that, II he BET Aeasly, which
may or may not have been the case, kr. Ten Brosck
must have won heavily. Again, Mr. Ten Brock had
A air gle match for q email sum $500 between hiS
three yesrod colt Babylon end the three yesrold colt
| Saupterer which was 10 have been run the the DAY
be re the Cessre WITCH and in which Ssuotsrr Wa 70
| have given Babylon % pounds. The evening before
the race, Mr. Ten Brock withdrew his hoIe Pryor
from ali bis engagement and paid forfeit 10 Sauntersf.
But the next day, Prioress sourysssold beet SAun-
terer cut of sig, he giving her q pounds and his
year equal to 10 pounds more, or 81 pounds in all
| Wberupon the American jonrnals, even Mr.. Tea
Broeeks frepts nsiI uste, suggest without deny
ing il, that Babylon could cesly have bea.en Baum
terer; and that Mr. Ten Brock psid forfeit on him
OILY TO depreeiaie yet iutber the character OF bic
stable which, they say he had Intentionally lo"erse
| by constantly losirg when he could ksve won. We
are happy 10 say thst we have booked fay into the
matter and are Satisfied from thorough sxampstion
of the races and the weshts that there Is DO shadow
Of erourd for the suspicion-ss indeed might have
been assumed from the position which Is accorded -
Mr.. Ten Brock By the first aid most honorable mss