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harmful to his standing as a banker. He seldom backed 

 his own or other people's horses. When Macaroni won 

 at Newmarket, however, he wanted to back him for the 

 Derby, and did so, getting 8 to 1. Fearing, I suppose, 

 that some of his people at Diss should hear that he 

 betted, he never put the bet down in his pocket-book, 

 and when he found Macaroni had won, wrote to ask if I 

 could tell him whom it was he had betted with. But I 

 could not ; and he would have lost the money, had not 

 Mr. F. Fisher, who heard the bet made, given him the 

 name of the person who made it some weeks afterwards, 

 and he recovered his .800. Of course, betting-men do 

 not anxiously search for those to whom they owe money. 

 They think it time enough to pay it when it is demanded. 

 On the other hand, if you lose money to them, you are 

 sure to hear from them at once which is, after all, only 

 business. Beyond this bet, I never knew him risk any- 

 thing, unless it was on something which we jointly 

 owned, and this was not a losing business. 



He had some successes, too, with his stud. He owned 

 Tadmore, Lacydes and Vedette. The latter he bought of 

 Lord Zetland for 3,000, at my wish; and he, like Bay 

 Middleton, could get a good horse for anyone else but 

 his owner. Still, he got many winners for us, as did 

 Promised Land, which Mr. Simpson also had. He gave 

 Lord William Powlett 1,200 for him ; but he was not a 

 success at the stud, at which I was much surprised. 

 Many people thought that both he and Vedette had too 

 many mares. But though that theory may apply to the 

 former, it can scarcely be said of the latter ; for Vedette 

 got the winner of the Derby, Speculum, and other pretty 

 good horses. From his stud sprang Galopin, by Vedette 

 out of Flying Duchess, by Flying Dutchman out of Her -ope , 

 winner of the Derby, and one of the greatest sires of to- 



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