2 MR. HENRY PA I) WICK 



comprehends the sporting, and especially the racing, 

 element. The sayings and doings of the leading turfites 

 are carefully recorded, to be reproduced at all appropriate 

 seasons ; and often, it is to be feared, without that exact- 

 ness which adds real value to the records themselves. In 

 adding my quota to the mass of information thus obtained, 

 I feel, therefore, that I shall be addressing a sympathetic 

 audience ; the more so because I can relate incidents of 

 which I have personal knowledge, without having resort 

 to fable, and freed from the risk of inaccuracy. With 

 most of the characters that I shall venture to introduce 

 I have been on friendly, if not intimate, terms ; whilst 

 my facts, when not within my own knowledge, have all 

 been gathered at first-hand. 



Amongst the notable characters connected with the 

 racing world within the last three decades, none stood 

 forth more conspicuously than did Mr. Henry Pad wick. 

 I may say I knew him well. The success of his string 

 of horses trained at Findon by my father, Mr. John 

 Barham Day, was remarkable. Besides, I had many 

 personal dealings with him ; whilst to me he would 

 unbosom himself on occasion as though to his closest 

 friend. Of no man in a similar position have more 

 erroneous notions been held. He has been represented 

 as a modern Shy lock, a nineteenth-century Machiavelli ; 

 and his character and habits surrounded with an im- 

 penetrable veil of mystery. Yet he was, like most of 

 us, but a human being, with some of the failings and 

 some of the virtues of humanity. He, at all events, 

 achieved a notoriety which will render all that may be 

 set forth concerning his idiosyncrasies and his actions 

 of a double value ; and so justify the prominence I give 



