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succeeded in landing his horse a winner, by a 

 head. 



On the 17th of January, in this year, John 

 Lawrence, the well-known writer on horses and 

 on sporting, died at his cottage, at Peckham, in 

 Surrey, at the advanced age of 87, enjoying health 

 and the perfect use of his faculties almost to the 

 last moment. He was, at the period of his death, the 

 oldest contributor to the Old Sporting Magazine, 

 having commenced to write in it as early as the 

 year 1799, and for many years his name was con- 

 stantly before the public in its pages. His best 

 work, the " History of the Horse," has passed 

 through fourteen editions ; besides which, he wrote 

 and compiled several works of repute. He was a 

 warm opponent to the system of " summering the 

 hunter;" and he persisted in giving wrong pedigrees 

 to several of the most famous race-horses of the last 

 century ; in both of which positions, it is scarcely 

 necessary to observe, he was most egregiously in 

 error. We must, however, do him the justice to 

 add, that he was on all occasions an earnest advo- 

 cate for the kind treatment of animals, especially 

 the horse, and materially assisted the late Mr. 

 Martin, M.P. for Galway, in his philanthropic 

 exertions to prevent cruelty to the brute creation. 



On the 6th of April, died in consequence of a fall 

 from a horse, George Ezard, for many years 

 managing groom in the stables of John Scott, 

 the well known trainer, ofWhitwall, near Mal- 

 ton. 



