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four minutes on common hacks — Anecdote of Sir Charles 

 Bunbury's training groom — Death of the Earl of Grosvenor 

 — Anecdote of old Ehves, the miser — A knowing one out- 

 witted — Mrs. Thornton's celebrated matches against Mr. Flint 

 and Buckle the jockey — Anecdote of Colonel Thornton. . 23 



CHAPTER III. 



Racing in Great Britain from 1805 to 1810 — Death of the Earl of 

 Clermont, and anecdote of the Right Hon. Charles James 

 Fox's connection with the turf — Samuel Chifney, his death, &c. 

 — George Stubbs, the celebrated horse-painter — Anecdote of 

 Mr. Wentworth — Anecdote of Mr. Thomas Panton of New- 

 market — Race-horses poisoned at Newmarket — Death of the 

 Duke of Queensbury — Anecdotes of, Elegies on, &c. — Rich- 

 ard Goodison — Anecdote of the Duke of Grafton — Sales 

 of Racing studs — Mr. Weston's match against time — Driving 

 one horse in harness 100 miles, in eleven hours and thirty- one 

 and a half minutes — Death of Mr. Edward Tattersall of 

 Hyde Park-Corner — Death of Thomas Field, the Jockey. . til 



CHAPTER IV. 



Racing in Great Britain from 1810 to 1815 — The trial and exe- 

 cution of Daniel Dawson at Cambridge, for poisoning race- 

 horses at Newmarket — Death of Mr. Bartholoman— Suicide 

 of Mr. Brograve, occasioned by losses in the betting ring — 

 Disputed race for the Claret stakes — Death of the famous 

 race-horse John Bull — Prices obtained for the valuable race- 

 horses, Grimalkin, Cannon-ball, and Tramp — Colonel Thorn- 

 ton's dejiarture for France — Twelve miles performed in 25 

 minutes and 11 seconds by a charger.— Sale of Mr. Lad- 

 broke's racing stud — Death of the Duke of Dorset, from an 

 accident while liunting, in Ireland. . . .Ill 



CHAPTER V. 



Racing in Great Britain from IS 13 to 1S20 — Death of Jof^fph 



