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ofFering- Mr. Batson an extraordinary sum for Plenipo- 

 tentiary as the horse was beins,- saddled. He shifted later 

 on, and for the last time^ when he sent his horses to Dane- 

 bury, where they did wonders for the rather falling- 

 fortunes of old John Day. There was the Ug-ly Buck to 

 begin, with which they won the Two Thousand in 1844 ; 

 and then, in the next year but one, Pyrrhus the First, 

 and Mendicant, with which 3Ir. Gully won both the Derby 

 and Oaks. Old Sam Day was his jockey ; and we can 

 recollect no more graceful illustration of the poetry of 

 motion than that elegant horseman going up on that sweet 

 mare, Mendicant. Everything was in unison, from the 

 figure and style of the jockey, and the beautiful look of 

 his filly, down to the ver}^ colour of his cap and jacket — 

 the delicate violet, blended or mounted with white. They 

 had brought out Weatherbit and Old England even before 

 this ; and in a few seasons more Mr. Gully matched them 

 with another such a pair in The Hermit and Andover, the 

 one a winner of the Two Thousand, and the other of The 

 Derby. Rarely has any man enjoyed more signal success 

 in his favourite pursuit ; but, as we have said already, 

 Gully owed much of this to his fine judgment, especially 

 noticeable in the way in v/hich he could reckon up a race- 

 horse, or pick out a young one. Latterly, what with 

 increasing years and failing strength, he had gradually 

 declined, and, having sold Ackworth to Mr. Hill, had 

 lived for some years at Marwell Hall, near Winchester, 

 though he had still property in the North, including, we 

 believe, some coal mines ; and hence his death occurring 

 at Durham : but he was buried at Ackworth on Saturday, 

 March 14, 1863. He leaves a family of five sons and five 

 daughters. 



It was the late Mr. J. S. Buckingham, who, if we 



