SIR JOSEPH HAWLEY. 97 



Miami. It was at this time, too, that he was guilty of what all 

 his friends declared to be the egregious folly of purchasing Mendicant 

 for 3,000 guineas from John Grully, a mistake (!) which years 

 afterwards put into his pockets the sum of £100,000 in a single 

 year — for her son, Beadsman, in 1858, by his Derby victory, 

 enabled Sir Joseph to net upwards of £80,000 in bets in addition 

 to the unusually rich stakes. The Lord of Leybourne had not 

 long to wait before securing a greater triumph than Miami's. 

 None who were present are ever likely to forget the Derby of 

 1851, the year of the first Great Exhibition, and, take it alto- 

 gether, the most brilliant anniversary of the great race on record. 

 Never before had there been seen so vast a concourse on Epsom 

 Downs, and though possibly the railways of late years may have 

 conveyed larger numbers to the course, yet never has there been 

 witnessed such a crush upon the road or such a splendid array 

 of equipages on the classic race-ground. Every Englishman 

 seemed determined to aid in adding to the imposing spectacle 

 prepared for the myriads of foreigners from every corner of the 

 globe who were bent upon assisting at our great national holi- 

 day. All the surrounding circumstances, too, were favourable. 

 The weather was charming, and the field for the Derby was the 

 largest then recorded, and, indeed, has been only once since sur- 

 passed, namely, in 1862— curiously enough the year of the next 

 Elxhibition when Caractacus stole his victory for Mr. Snewing from 

 a field of thirty-four. In 1851 there were thirty-three starters, 

 and the winner, as all the world knows, was that magnificent son of 

 Orlando, Teddington, who, though run in Sir Joseph Hawley's 

 name and colours, was really the property of his confederate, Mr. 

 J. M. Stanley. It was one of the heaviest betting Derby's ever 

 known, and Davis, the " leviathan" bookmaker, who was then in 

 the height of his glory, received a blow that may be said to 

 have struck him " between wind and water." He, however, took 

 no more notice of it than he was wont to do of his v;ashing bill, 

 although his losses were estimated at £100,000, paying them 

 with as much indifference as the London and Westminster bank 

 would have done ; and, to prevent any grounds for sinister gossip, 

 without waiting for settling day, he gladdened Mr. Charles Gre- 

 ville's eyes with a cheque for £15,000 the day before the Oaks. 

 On this occasion, to the horror and indignation of Admiral Rous, 

 Sir Joseph and his confederate presented Job Marson, who rode 

 Teddington, with two thousand pounds, whilst the other douceurs 

 which the fortunate jockey received made the ride worth upwards 

 of £3,000 to him. 



Sir Joseph had already obtained the sobriquet of the " lucky 

 baronet," and so strong was tlie public fiiith in his luck, that, in the 

 following September, when he went to Doncaster to do battle with 

 the powerful stables of the North, in the St. I^eger, every owner, 

 trainer, jockey, stable-boy, and backer hailing from south of the 



