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accoraplished the feat at Newmarket, but by the 

 skin of his teeth ; for on one of the days the horse he 

 was riding broke down after going 60 miles, and Mr. 

 Woodcock had to begin all over again on a fresh horse, 

 so that he rode 160 miles on that day. Mr. Jenison 

 Shafto, who was an ornament of the Legislature (M.P. 

 for different places at different times) as well as of 

 the Turf and of the Jockey Club, appears to have 

 died about 1770 ; at any rate his Stud was sold by 

 auction at Newmarket by Mr. Pond, Oct. 5, 1771. 



Mr. Robert Shafto, whose membership of the 

 Jockey Club is established by Tandem, beaten by 

 Pot8os for a Jockey Club Plate in 1780 (in which year 

 Mr. Shafto, who had, no doubt, been a member of the 

 Club for some years previously, seems to have died on 

 June 11), is also described as of Whitworth, Durham, 

 and of West Wratting, Cambs. He was also a mighty 

 ' gentleman-jockey,' but did not attain, apparently, to 

 the height of Mr. Jenison ; and he appears also to 

 have been M.P. as well as horse-breeder, horse-owner 

 and horse-racer, and to have belonged to what was 

 known as the great ' Northumberland Confederacy,' 

 consisting of Messrs. Swinburne and Shafto (brothers), 

 all members of the Jockey Club. 



Mr. Scrymsher (v. Boothby) is the same person 

 as * Prince Boothby.' 



Mr. Shirley, whose signature is appended to 

 Jockey Club 'Resolutions ' of 1767 and 1771, was the 

 Hon. Thomas Shirley, belonging to the family of the 



