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Hogarth, Middleton's year, and ran third 

 for the Oaks, he never carried the Epsom 

 honours until 1834, with Plenipotentiary. 

 Mr. Rush also is an old jockey, and a very 

 good supporter of the turf, running his 

 horses more for amusement than profit. 

 He also breeds, but his stock does not 

 shine at Newmarket, where he is generally 

 satisfied with a good third. It is said he 

 breeds from worn-out mares. In the pro- 

 vincials, however, he is rather more for- 

 tunate ; and it is something to say he was 

 James Robinson's first master, and John 

 Robinson trains for him. Mr. Biggs is 

 another old member of the Jockey Club, 

 but, like Mr. Batson, is more formidable in 

 the provincials, where he has been a great 

 winner, and hard to beat. Some years 

 since, at Stockbridge, his horse Camerton 

 was the winner of a memorable race. Three 

 others started, viz., Sir John Cope's Shoe- 

 strings, the late Lord Foley's Offa's Dyke, 

 and the late Lord Charles Somerset's Scor- 

 pion. The following was the result : 

 Camerton, ridden by the late Sawyer, who 

 died shortly after, never started again ; 

 Shoestrings, by John Day, broke down ; 



