124 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1750- 



in 1770 and 1771, and runner for a Jockey Club Plate 

 with Denmark in 1772, is called in the records Charles 

 Ogilvy, Esq., and his ' harlequin ' colours seem to 

 point to a connection with the family of the Earls of 

 Airlie. He was a great Turfite, and the hero of the 

 match run on May 22, 1772, when he ran his horse 

 Pincher against Messrs. Foley and Fox (who were 

 confederates) represented by Trentham and Pyrrhus, 

 the confederates betting 2,500 guineas to 2,000 guineas 

 that Pincher would be last. Pincher, on the contrary, 

 was first, though the betting at the start was 6 to 4 

 that Pincher was last. However, the match was run 

 over again the next year at the Newmarket Craven 

 Meeting (April 2) on the same terms (8 stone 7 Ib. 

 each, B.C.), the confederates betting 500 guineas, even 

 this time, that Pincher was last ; the betting at the 

 start was 5 to 2 that Pincher was last, and he was 

 last. Was it ' the riding that did it ' ? 



The name of * OTTLEY covers two gentlemen, pro- 

 bably father and son, both conspicuous on the Turf, 

 designated respectively as William Ottley, Esq., and 

 William Ottley, jun., Esq., ' of Cambridge.' They 

 belonged to the West Indian patrons of the Turf, as 

 they ' hailed ' from the Island of St. Christopher ; 

 and one of them ran Portius (by Cato) for a Jockey 

 Club Plate in 1770, so that he was certainly a member 

 of the Jockey Club. Whether they were both members 

 is not so easily determined. He who ran Portius for 

 the Jockey Club Plate owned the Cade mare (dam by 



