io MR. HENRY PAD WICK 



won him the Drawing-rootn Stakes at Goodwood, and so 

 brought him back some of the 8,000 he gave Mr. Pad- 

 wick for him yet in no other race did he carry his new 

 owner's colour to victory. 



These, it may be said, are some of the extraordinary 

 incidents in racing for which no satisfactory account can 

 be given by anyone. Nevertheless, in these transactions 

 Mr. Padwick may be adjudged the salesman without an 

 equal, in having got rid of three horses in training for the 

 extraordinary sum of 22,000, or an average of 7,333 

 each ; and not only credited with having thus secured a 

 small fortune, but also with the judgment shown in 

 selecting the time for parting with them just when they 

 had done all the good they were likely to do for him or 

 anyone else, and had shown public form sufficient to 

 enhance their value in the eyes of eager purchasers. 



Nevertheless, with all his acumen, Padwick was not a 

 good judge of racing. His study had been the study of 

 mankind and the state of their exchequer, rather than 

 the merits of his horses and where to place them with 

 the best chance of success. One instance that came 

 under my own observation will serve to show this dis- 

 ability on his part. In the spring of 1861 he came to 

 see Alvediston, who was then very big (if any of my 

 horses in training were ever thought to be so), not having 

 to run early. On his return the next day he wrote and 

 expressed his wish that the horse should run shortly 

 after at Epsom in the Woodcote Stakes. I reasoned with 

 him on the impropriety of doing anything so indiscreet ; 

 but to entreaty he remained inexorable. The horse ran, 

 was well beaten, and he lost his money, as he richly de- 

 served to do. He then arranged that the horse should 

 be kept for his Stockbridge engagements. But the re- 

 solve had no sooner been made than it was broken. For 



