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we have seen, the Club very judiciously, if a little 

 selfishly, declined for the future in 1842) had given 

 offence to a Mr. Hawkins (one of the parties to the 

 dispute), and caused him (as so often happens) to 

 find balm for his wounded feelings in heaping violent 

 abuse upon Lord Wharncliffe (Mr. Stuart- Wortley), 

 and to get ' warned off the course ' for his pains, the 

 ' warned off ' person was recalcitrant, causing the 

 action Duke of Portland v. Hawkins, for trespass, to 

 be brought (at Cambridge Assizes), upon which occa- 

 sion (as the law reports of the time will show anybody 

 who cares to refer to them), the right of the Jockey 

 Club to ' warn off ' was amply confirmed. This 

 heart-burning question was tried again, about 1862, 

 in connection with what is known as the ' Tarragona 

 case,' when Mr. Irwin Willes, the well known ' Argus ' 

 of the Morning Post, refused to acquiesce in the 

 ' warning off ' decreed against him, but was worsted 

 when an appeal was once more made to the law ; 

 and it was touched upon in 1869, when the action 

 Bray v. Jennings, for assault, was tried, and when Mr. 

 Bray, a ' tout,' being less chivalrous apparently than 

 Mr. Snipe (of whom mention has been made), not 

 only did not refuse to say ( who his employers were,' 

 but gloried in stating that he was employed by the 

 Eight Hon. the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, a 

 most conspicuous member of that Jockey Club to 

 which a ' tout ' is as the dead fly that makes the 

 apothecary's ointment to stink. 



