26 MR. HENRY PAD WICK 



lost this immense amount or more the same year on the 

 Stock Exchange, on information that an astute City man 

 would have scouted as slender as a thread. He was 

 undoubtedly a confederate with John Gully in Andover 

 and other horses, and was even reputed to have heen 

 connected in the same way with the redoubtable Harry 

 Hill, although my brother John always assured me there 

 was no truth in the latter report. He was often at 

 Danebury when Hill was there, which fact may have 

 given rise to the rumour. The three were often seen on 

 the racecourse in company, although both Gully and Hill 

 were too clever to accompany Mr. Padwick to the 

 gaming-tables at the different race-meetings and other 

 places, to whose incomings he must have been a mine of 

 wealth. 



He trained at Whitewall, Danebury, Epsom, and other 

 places ; but never with the success he attained at Findon, 

 where shortly after the episode above related, my father, 

 on retiring from active life, was succeeded by Mr. William 

 Goater, an unpretending but accomplished trainer and an 

 estimable man, who did him justice with the rest of his 

 clients. Mr. Padwick had other trainers, and his restless 

 spirit was always seeking some new venture for the use- 

 less purpose of adding further store to his accumulated 

 wealth. But virtually his racing career was at an end. 

 He had but few or no good horses afterwards, nor cared 

 to give much in making further purchases. 



He was undoubtedly a most successful and exceedingly 

 clever man ; but the risk he was continually running in 

 his multifarious and gigantic transactions made him 

 irritable, and even his doubtful pleasure could have been 

 but ' restless ecstasy,' whilst his disquietude must have 

 , been often lasting and painful. A complication of dis- 

 eases, gout (to which he was a martyr), and bronchitis, 



