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Auction: 17020 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 850

Autographs
Jenison Shafto
1759 (27 June) the records of his famous bet to ride fifty miles in two hours, letter written by Robert Mackreth confirming the time of 1 hour forty nine minutes and twenty seconds and the names of the eight horses used and the miles each covered (most horses being used twice). This bet was run on Newmarket Heath and the letter written the same day in London. A rare record of this famous bet

Jenison Shafto (c.1728 - 1771), of Wratting Park, Cambridgeshire, was an English politician, race-horse owner, and gambler.



Sir Robert Mackreth (c.1725–1819) of Ewhurst, Hampshire, was an English club owner, money lender, speculator and politician. He was a Member of the Parliament for Castle Rising from 1774 to 1784, and for Ashburton from 1784 to 1802. Mackreth began life as a billiard-marker at White's Club. He acquired a vintner's business in St. James's Street, and became an assistant of Robert Arthur, the original proprietor of White's, who on his death, 6 June 1761, left the property to Mackreth, then about to marry his only child, Mary Arthur

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