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beating Kingstown ; and again with odds on him he was 

 beaten at Goodwood, and never ran after. Eclipse, 

 another of his horses, ran a dead-heat with Beadsman 

 for the Newmarket Stakes, and divided. Beadsman, 

 however, beat him in the Derby. I therefore presume 

 Eclipse could not stay, or must have been unwell on the 

 day they met for the big event. He was afterwards sold 

 to Mr. Ten Broeck. He never, however, did anything 

 for his last purchaser, beyond receiving forfeit on a small 

 match ; and was sent to America, where, I believe, he 

 got some fair stock. 



We have seen that Mr. Padwick exercised special dis- 

 crimination, not perhaps unaided by good fortune, in his 

 purchases. I have now to show that the same shrewd- 

 ness or good luck attended his sales. Kangaroo was the 

 sensational horse at Newmarket when he beat the Duke 

 of Beaufort's Koenig and eighteen others for the New- 

 market Biennial in the Craven Meeting ; and the Marquis 

 of Hastings purchased him of Mr. Padwick for 11,000, 

 the highest price ever given for a three-year-old in this or 

 any other country, so far as I have been able to ascertain. 

 Strange to say, though I imagine a very sound horse, 

 Kangaroo never won a 50 race after, being no doubt ' a 

 bad one,' and not within twenty-one pounds of a race- 

 horse. He started for the Derby at 1,000 to 10, and was 

 beaten easily in that and other smaller races. Again, 

 another of his horses, Elmsthorpe, which won him the 

 Molecombe at Goodwood and the Kutland Stakes at 

 Newmarket, was sold to Mr. Geo. Whieldon for 3,000 ; 

 and, unluckily for his new owner, died mad, just after he 

 had purchased him, from disease of the brain, which was 

 found on a post-mortem examination to have softened to 

 a semi-fluid state. And if, with his purchase of Oulston, 

 Mr. Elwes was rather more fortunate for he afterwards 



