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Hip) that bred (for Mr. Ottley) Corsican, Portias, 

 Cassandro (a colt), Hengrave, and Grand Seignior ; 

 but the name of Ottley has not remained in evidence 

 to any great extent. 



Mr. Panton, a subscriber to the Jockey Club Cup 

 in 1768, and to nearly all the early ' orders ' of the 

 Jockey Club, was Thomas Panton, Esq., of Newmarket, 

 the ' polite Tommy ' Panton, whose father had been 

 'keeper of the King's running horses at Newmarket,' 

 and whose sister Mary married the third Duke of 

 Ancaster and was Mistress of the Piobes. Both the 

 Pantons were great upon the Turf. The elder, whom 

 Horace "Walpole calls ' a disreputable horse-jockey 

 named Panton,' died in 1750 at the age of eighty- two, 

 and the younger died in 1809 at the great age of 

 eighty-seven or eighty-eight. It was the younger, the 

 member of the Jockey Club who won the Derby with 

 Noble, by Highflyer, in 1786, and was the owner, if 

 not the importer or breeder, of the Panton Arabian, 

 sire of Virago, dam of Hollandaise, winner of the 

 first properly called St. Leger, in 1778. 



Mr. (Colonel and General) Parker, one of the 

 signatories of a Jockey Club document in 1767, and of 

 the subscribers to the Jockey Club Cup in 1768, 

 is made out to have been the Hon. George Lane 

 Parker, second son of the second Earl of Macclesfield. 

 If so, he was born in 1724, married the widow of Sir 

 Cottrell Dormer in 1782, and died September 1791. 

 He was an officer in the Guards, and was at one time 



