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countess Canning, almost throwing into the shade 

 the * lucky Burrells ' of the Gwdwyr family. He 

 seems to have been identical with the General Scott, 

 M.P., who was so staunch a supporter of Warren 

 Hastings (himself, it is said, though not proved, a 

 member of the Jockey Club). It is undoubtedly he 

 whom ' Old Q.' (when Earl of March) mentions in his 

 correspondence with Selwyn, and it seems to have 

 been he who, when Mr. Panton betted that the 

 General's horse would be last in a race for which the 

 horses were just going to the post, took the bet 

 promptly, rode off after the horses, was just in time to 

 overtake them, and ordered his jockey to ' pull.' This 

 was done ; and, as will readily be believed, is said to 

 have led to a ' dispute.' But it was smart. 



*Mr. Selwyn, whose name is attached to Jockey 

 Club ' Resolutions ' in 1767, and whose membership 

 is also attested by a letter to him from Lord Holland 

 of about the same date, remarking upon Selwyn's 

 refusal ' to sign at the Jockey Club,' is George Selwyn, 

 Esq., the celebrated wit, and his name bears the 

 asterisk, as he was one of the ' West Indian ' members 

 (having property and holding a sinecure office in 

 Barbados, besides various little lucrative appointments 

 under Government, such as were then conferred upon 

 favourites by what would be now denounced as 'jobs'). 

 It is not to be discovered that he ever ran a racehorse 

 in his own name, though he may very well have had 

 a share in one or more belonging to his intimate 



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