BRITISH TURF. Il7 



At the commencement of the First Spring Meet- 

 ing at Newmarket, in this year, Spaniard, Pirouette, 

 The Dandy, and Sir F. Standish's Eagle colt, died 

 in consequence of arsenic having been put into the 

 troughs at which they were watered. Two horses. 

 Reveller and Coelebs who, drank some of the poi- 

 soned water, recovered. 



This atrocious act created general indignation, 

 and a reward of 500 gs. was immediately offered 

 by the Jockey Club for the discovery of the guilty 

 party. 



On the 15th of August, Daniel Dawson, a low 

 touter*, was apprehended at Brighton and com- 

 mitted by Mr. Conant, the Magistrate, of Marl- 

 borough Street, to Cambridge goal ; a true bill 

 having been found against him by the Grand Jury 

 for poisoning horses at the Newmarket Spring 

 Meeting, in 1809. His trial and execution took 

 place in 1812. 



On the 15th of April, Mr. Alexander Bartholo- 

 man, the proprietor and printer of the York He- 

 rald, an old estabhshed and well-known sporting 

 newspaper, died at York. 



PRINCIPAL STAKES, &C., IN 1812. 



Newmarket, Craven Meeting. — The Craven stakes, won by Lord 

 Lowther's ch. c. Flash by Sir Oliver. Sweepstakes of 100 gs. each, 



* ToM^er, one who looks about to see the "coast is clear." — Slang 

 Dictionary. Men of low cunning, and with some little knowledge of 

 the power of race-horses, have always been enrployed by dishonest 

 betters, to skulk about Newmarket Heath, and other race-courses, 

 to discover and report such information about race-horses, as to enable 

 their employers to bet with advantage : they are called touters. 



