8 MR. HENRY PAD WICK 



and never was again a winner, though she ran well in 

 both the Eoyal Hunt and Ascot Cups. Ultimately, after 

 running ingloriously unplaced in the Craven Stakes at 

 Goodwood in 1855, she left the exciting scenes of the 

 turf, where she had so often been victorious, for rest 

 at the stud, but proved the reverse of a success. Lord 

 Stradbrooke bought her of Mr. Padwick after her last 

 race at Goodwood for 500. Had it not been for her 

 roaring she would have fetched four times as much. 

 She was the dam of Thalestris which, carrying a light 

 weight, won the Cesarewitch for Lord Coventry pro- 

 bably the best she ever bred. She died in 1869. 



Mr. Padwick owned other good horses. Amongst these 

 was Scythian, bought of Colonel Anson after being beaten 

 at Goodwood, who won many races, including the Chester 

 Cup of 1855, on which Mr. Padwick landed a good stake ; 

 Cheval d' Indus trie, Little Harry, Theodora, Vaultress, 

 Eclipse, St. Hubert, Kangaroo and Alvediston. Yellow 

 Jack and Queen's Head I have already named. Of these, 

 just as Virago was his best, Yellow Jack and St. Hubert 

 were the unlucky ones. As for the former, it is true a 

 glorious future appeared to be before him when he won 

 as a two-year-old at Newmarket ; but the next year he 

 was actually second in every race he ran : to Fazzoletto 

 for the Two Thousand ; to One Act for the Chester Cup ; 

 to Ellington for the Derby, and to Fly-by-Night for the 

 Ascot Derby ; to Rogerthorpe his (Padwick's) own friend 

 Hill's horse for the Goodwood Cup ; and finished up 

 his awful career by running second (shall it be told !) even 

 to Barber's horse, I he Prince of Orange, in a Sweepstakes 

 200 each, at Doncaster. St. Hubert, another good horse, 

 never absolutely won Mr. Padwick a race. For the Two 

 Thousand he was backed for a heavy stake with odds of 

 7 to 4 on him, when he ran second to Lord of the Isles, 



