JOHN GULLY. S^* 



soared above these difficulties, and with a fortitude equal 

 to any man, he entered the ring' a most consummate 

 pug'iHst. In point of appearance, if his frame does not 

 boast of that eleg:ance of shape from which an artist might 

 model to attain perfect symmetry, yet, nevertheless, it is 

 athletic and prepossessing*. He is about six feet hig'h." 



On leaving the Ring, Mr. Gully, like most successful 

 pugilists, inclined to the public life of a Boniface, and was 

 for some time landlord of ^' The Ploug'h," in Carey-street, 

 Lincoln' s Inn Fields. But another ring found attractions 

 for him, and he very soon devoted himself to the business 

 of a betting- man, thoug-h not always as a bettor round, or 

 layer against horses. Indeed, at the Newmarket Craven 

 Meeting, in 1810, when Lord Foley's Spaniard was got 

 at by some of the Dan Dawson crew for the Claret, Mr. 

 Gully was amongst those who turned round and laid the' 

 long odds on the favourite, upon whose defeat, it is said, 

 his backer burst into tears, and declared he was a ruined 

 man ! However, in only two years subsequently — in 

 1812, that is — Mr. Gully had horses of his own, Cardenio 

 being the first that ever ran in his name. He worked 

 on gradually, still betting- round, and at one period 

 residing at Newmarket, with such tackle as Brutus, Truth, 

 Rigmarole, Forfeit, Cock Robin, and others, until 1827, 

 when he came prominently to the fore by the purchase of 

 Mameluke, a horse that he gave Lord Jersey 4,000 

 guineas for, after his winning the Derby. How his new 

 owner backed Mameluke for immense sums for the St. 

 Leger, and how he was beaten by Matilda, after a fearful 

 scene at the post, where Mr. Gully had himself to flog- 

 his horse off, are now matters of history. But, heavily 

 as he had lost, the first man in the rooms, and the last to 

 leave — never thinking of going, in fact, until every claim 



