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242 HISTORY OF THE^ 



The best horses in the stud of Mr. Mytton, a 

 name well known in the sporting world, reaUzed 

 the following prices, being sold at Halston by Mr. 

 Beardsworth, viz : — Whittington by Filho da Puta, 

 290 gs.; Longwaist by Whalebone, 860 gs.; Flex- 

 ible by Whalebone, 530 gs. The famous stallion 

 Figaro, was also sold by Messrs. Tattersall for 

 1,850 gs. 



By the exertions of the stewards, the sport for 

 this year at Epsom races was much increased, no 

 less than three new stakes having been opened. 



The right of the Jockey Club, to warn persons 

 off the Newmarket race course, was fully established 

 at the Cambridge assizes, by a verdict to that 

 effect, given by a jury in an action for trespass, 

 brought by the Duke of Portland against S. Haw- 

 kins, Esq.; who had been forbidden the race 

 course, on account of having used unbecoming 

 language to Lord Wharncliffe on the heath, for 

 what the former gentleman considered an unjust 

 decision of the Jockey Club. On the trial, evi- 

 dence was produced by the Jockey Club, that the 

 proprietorship of the race course had been vested 

 in that body, since the year 1753, as tenants of the 

 Duke of Portland. 



PRINCIPAL STAKES, &C., IN 1828. 



Newmarket Craven Meeting, April 7. — ^The Craven stakes, ten sub- 

 scribers, won by Col. Wilson's b. c. Lampligbter by Merlin. Ilan- 

 dicaj) sweepstakes of 10 sovs., Ab. M., won by Mr. Moloney's br. f. 



