THE FRAUD OF A DERBY 



by Capsicum. He was bred by Sir G. Ibbetson 

 in April 1840. In the month of September 1841 

 he was offered for sale by Mr. Tattersall at Don- 

 caster and was bought by Goodman. He was 

 entered for the Derby of 1843. After Doncaster 

 the colt was first lodged wth a farmer named 

 Worley at Sywell, near Northampton, and was 

 then sent to a place in the occupation of Higgins, 

 who was Goodman's accomplice, where he remained 

 until September 1842, and was there known as 

 Maccabseus. Thence he was walked to London, 

 and on September 24th was stabled in Langham 

 Place. Here the fraud was perpetrated,^ and the 

 Gladiator colt (Maccabaeus), under the name of 

 Running Rein, on September 27th was dispatched 

 to Epsom, while the real Running Rein (the 

 Saddler colt) was hidden away at Finchley. Mac- 

 cabaeus — henceforward Running Rein — was kept 

 at Epsom and trained there until he was sent to 

 Newmarket in the autumn of the following year, 

 to fulfil the real Running Rein's engagements. 



Goodman, in order to account for Maccabaeus' 

 existence, resorted to another deception. There 

 was an Irish horse called Goneaway. In July 

 1842 Goodman, after inquiring about the colour 

 of the animal, paid the owner, Mr. Ferguson, 

 of Rossmore Lodge, County Kildare, £500 for the 

 use of this three-year-old,^ who was dispatched 



« So, too, the Judge at the close of the trial : " The pinch of 

 the case is what was done at the stable in Langham Place, for there 

 is no doubt that the colt that left Langham Place for Epsom to 

 be trained became Running Rein." 



» Lord George Bentinck travelled to Ireland to see Mr. Ferguson 

 about this transaction with Goodman, and even traced the purchase 

 of the dye which Goodman had used. 



