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his case too, a series of failures combined with a very large 

 stud soon took the gilt off the gingerbread. Mr Bennet, 

 again, by the two victories of Dalby in the Chester Cup 

 (1865-6) won over ;^8o,ooo; yet a few years later he had 

 not as many farthings. 



Poor Carew, who stood to win ;^ 180,000 on Old Robert, 

 died almost penniless in Boulogne. 



Of the men who have made money on the Turf few have 

 been more successful than Steel, who " never owned a hair 

 in a racehorse's tail." 



Charles Snewing, who won the Derby with Caractacus, 

 remembering that the whole art of gambling is knowing 

 when to leave off, after his great coup retired from the ring 

 to a farm at Watford, surrounded in his home by portraits 

 of his famous horse. 



A notable example of luck on the Turf is the American, 

 Mr G. E. Smith, better known, perhaps, as " Pittsburg 

 Phil," who recently died intestate (February 1905), and 

 left three millions of dollars which he had won from the 

 bookmakers and — kept. 



