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man, instantly ran to the boat, and extended the 

 whip to Mr. Wentworth, who had got hold of 

 Miss Howe, and he fortunately caught the lash 

 of it, and they were then, with some difficulty, 

 brought safe into the boat. 



Tn this year, died, at Newmarket, Thomas Pan- 

 ton, Esq., aged 87, one of the oldest members of 

 the Jockey Club, and a constant patron of the 

 turf. Also Hugo Meynell, Esq., at Brighton, at 

 the age of 81, the father of Leicestershire fox- 

 hunting, whose fame belongs more properly to the 

 annals of the chase. To the above, may be added 

 John Hilton, many years judge at Newmarket, 

 Epsom, Bibury, and other race-courses, and gene- 

 rally esteemed for his strict integrity and obliging 

 manners. 



In the First Spring Meeting at Newmarket, in 

 this year, several race-horses in Mr. Stevens's 

 stable were poisoned, by arsenic being put into the 

 trough at which they were watered. A reward 

 of a hundred guineas was immediately offered for 

 the discovery of the offenders, who, however, suc- 

 ceeded for that time in eluding the pursuit of 

 justice ; but in 1811, emboldened by their success, 

 they again perpetrated a similar offence, and were 

 apprehended and punished, as we shall notice in 

 our next chapter. 



PRINCIPAL STAKES, &C., IN 1810. 

 Newmarket, Craven Meeting. — The Craven stakes, six subscribers. 



