MR. HENRY PAD WICK. 



it is to be feared, without that exactness which adds 

 real value to the records themselves. In adding my 

 quota to the mass of information thus obtained, I 

 feel, therefore, that I shall be addressing a sympa- 

 thetic audience ; the more so because I can relate 

 incidents of which I have personal knowledge, with- 

 out having resort to fable, and freed from the risk of 

 inaccuracy. With most of the characters that I shall 

 venture to introduce I have been on friendly, if not 

 intimate, terms ; whilst my facts, when not within my 

 own knowledge, have all been gathered at first-hand. 



Amongst the notable characters connected with 

 the racing world within the last three decades, none 

 stood forth more conspicuously than did Mr. Henry 

 Padwick. I may say I knew him well. The success 

 of his string of horses trained at Findon by my father, 

 Mr. John Barnham Day, was remarkable. Besides, I 

 had many personal dealings with him ; whilst to me 

 he would unbosom himself on occasion as though 

 to his closest friend. Of no man in a similar position 

 have more erroneous notions been held. He has been 

 represented as a modern Shylock, a nineteenth- 

 century Machiavelli ; and his character and habits 

 surrounded with an impenetrable veil of mystery. 

 Yet he was, like most of us, but a human being, with 

 some of the failing's and some of the virtues of 

 humanity. He, at all events, achieved a notoriety 

 which will render all that may be set forth concerning 

 his idiosyncrasies and his actions of a double value ; 



