| After taking his exams at Marlborough, he went to work for an Irish horse-dealer, then, at 17, joined the Middleton Hunt in North Yorkshire as a whipper-in. |
| Otis was a whipper-in for the Middleton Hunt, based at Birdsall, near Malton. |
| And what is Anne McGuire thinking of in acting as a whipper-in for these malcontents? |
| There is also some ado about puppy-walking and what a whipper-in does, and a number of references to hip flasks. |
| Among the functionaries are a musician-fool, and a kind of whipper-in called the Pot-raj. |
| The singer, whose son Otis is an assistant whipper-in for the Middleton Hunt, which sets off from Malton, has spoken of his support for the pro-hunt Countryside Alliance. |
