44 MR. JOHN GULLY 



Padwick, when the horse won the Derby of 1854. Nor 

 had he ever more than a half -share in Mendicant and 

 Pyrrhus the First, which shares my father sold him when 

 they were yearlings, after Lord George Bentinck refused 

 to take the former, for whom she was originally bought 

 of Mr. Whitworth, of Bury, Lancashire, for 300. 

 After winning the Derby and Oaks in 1846, the One 

 Thousand Guineas, and other stakes, they were sold, the 

 one to Mr. Elwes, and the mare to Sir Joseph Hawley, 

 in whose hands, in course of time, she became the founder 

 of his celebrated stud, and dam of Beadsman, the Derby 

 winner in 1858. 



Up to the time they were thus parted with, they were, 

 like Andover, trained at Danebury, and both were, as I 

 have said, the joint property of my father and Mr. Gully. 

 But just to show how history is sometimes written, I 

 may mention that in respect to the ownership of these 

 two celebrities, the following appeared in the pages of an 

 anonymous contemporary : 



* He, Gully, was formidable with Weatherbit and Old England, and 

 in 1846 won the Derby with Pyrrhus the First, and the Oaks with 

 Mendicant, an exploit which had only once been accomplished before, 

 when Sir Charles Bunbury's Eleanor carried off both trophies. The 

 victory of Pyrrhus the First must have been a bitter pill for old 

 John Day, who had purchased him at Doncaster ^as a yearling, 

 Mr. Gully agreeing to go halves with him. The horse never ran as a 

 two-year-old, and John Day, being in want of money, valued his share 

 of Pyrrhus at the end of the year at 100, which Mr. Gully promptly 

 gave him.' 



Now, whatever knowledge the writer may have had of 

 this matter, without the charge of egotism I may say I 

 am likely to know more, and may not therefore be thought 

 captious in stating the actual facts. Pyrrhns the First 

 was never at Doncaster, and therefore could not have 

 been bought there as a yearling. Having thus disposed 



