"At the late Lancaster Races, Sir P Musgrave's colt, on pulling up after the third heat for £50 on Tuesday, was found to be a dreadful state, the near hind-foot from the fetlock joint
hanging on merely by a little skin in the front, and the pastern bone and small pastern joint shivered to atoms. The rider found little failure in action about half a mile from home, but the extent of the fracture was not perceptible until he was in the act of pulling up, when within half a neck. The poor animal was immediately put out of his misery."
Sir P Musgrave was Sir Philip Musgrave MP. The Musgraves had been established in Cumberland since the thirteenth. Latterly, this Member’s grandfather Sir Philip Musgrave known as "Mussy" had sat as MP for Westmorland. Philip Musgrave stood for election first at Carlisle in March 1816, where he was described as the ‘young fox hunting baronet’ known for being a devotee of the turf and was attacked as an interloper. [1]
1. http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1820-1832/member/musgrave-sir-philip-1794-1827
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