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edly a great judge of a horse, he has a capital eye for 

 finding out when they are in trouble, and keeps bet- 

 ting on till they are some twenty yards from the 

 post ; and if it is a very near thing, after they are 

 past it. Teddington was a horse he never liked to 

 be against, after the Derby; but he is, perhaps, 

 more disposed to back riders than horses, and is very 

 liberal with them at times. Fordham, or "the kid," 

 as he always terms him, is his favourite, and he very 

 frequently declines to lay against the horse he is to 

 ride ; and other men in the King had a like fancy for 

 always backing Quint on. His constant habit has been 

 to come to Tattersall's after the Derby, however great 

 his losses, and pay on the Monday, instead of wait- 

 ing till the conventional settling Tuesday : and while 

 his lists were in force, he returned every night from 

 Newmarket to attend to them, and provide the need- 

 ful for paying next day. In fact, all his dealings 

 have been based on the ' ' broadstone of honour/'' and 

 conducted with a business-like precision such as we 

 may almost in vain hope to see again. One of his 

 rules is never to subscribe to a handicap, as he would 

 be pestered to death with applications if he did. We 

 never remember his nerve failing but once, and that 

 was when Bon Mot won the Liverpool Cup. He was 

 just beginning to fire heavily into this strange 3,000 

 guinea impostor, when he found himself compelled, 

 in consequence of a nervous head-ache, to close his 

 book and sit down, and, as luck would have it, he 

 won 3,000, instead of losing nearly twice that 

 amount. His philosophy was reported to have been 

 most severely tested in 1850, when he had laid very 

 heavily against Canezou for the Goodwood Cup. On 

 that day, Cariboo was declared to start merely to 

 make the running for Canezou; but he went so 

 well that it was all Charlton could do to pull him 

 up in front of the Stand, in order that Butler might 

 win with the mare. 



With the history of the Tattersall's battalion we have 



