| Owner: Jenison Shafto
Breeder: Ralph Jenison
Winnings: 4 Starts: 3 - 1 - 0
2 May 1748 - 100 guineas match Hambleton versus Ferret; 12 August 1748 - Plate Hambleton; 1749 - £50 Prize Wakefield
10 June 1748 - 2nd £50 Prize Newcastle
Pamela's owner, Jenison Shafto, MP for Leominster and then Castle Rising, was reported to have rode 100 miles every day for 29 days to Newmarket Heath, and then for 50 miles for 2 hours, for bets.
In 1763, his reputation as a winning gambler at Newmarket was such that Horace Walpole wrote to Lord Hertford: "The beginning of October, one is certain everybody will be at Newmarket, and the Duke of Cumberland will lose, and Shafto win, two or three thousand pounds".
In May 1771 he committed suicide by shooting himself, which many attributed to gambling losses on the turf and elsewhere.
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(GB) gr. M, 1744
{9} DP = 0-0-0-0-0 (0) DI = Inf CD = Inf - 4 Starts, 3 Wins, 1 Places, 0 Shows 