ii6 HORSE-RACING IN ENGLAND 



T. Panton, jun., when a 'gentleman-jock' was re- 

 quired. 



The most prominent ' turfites ' of the reign 

 were the Duke of York, of course, who died in 

 1827, Mr. Thornhill (of Riddlesworth), Mr. 

 Hunter (who had the unique privilege of winning 

 the Derby with a o-7'ay horse in 182 1), Mr. or 

 Colonel Udney, and the venerable (in point of 

 age) Earl of Egremont (who won the Derby for 

 the first time with Assassin in 1782, and for his 

 fifth and last time in 1826 with Lapdog). 



There were also Sir John Shelley (of Phantom 

 and Cedric celebrity), the 'Cadland' Duke of 

 Rutland, the Lord Jersey (so famous with 

 his two Middletons, with Mameluke, and with 

 Glenartney), Mr. Gratwicke (with Frederick), 

 the Duke of Portland (who had won the Derby 

 with Tiresias in 1819, and was the father of 

 Lord G. Bentinck), Lord Exeter (who was to 

 become the owner of the great Stockwell), the 

 fourth Duke of Grafton (who, by means of his 

 father's famous mares, Prunella and Penelope, 

 surpassed the paternal success, great as that had 

 been, on the turf), General and Field-Marshal 

 Grosvenor (breeder of Copenhagen), the filth 



