MR. HENRY PAD WICK. 



career by winning the City and Suburban and Metro- 

 politan Stakes at Epsom, a thing never done before or 

 since on the same day. In the latter she beat Mus- 

 covite, a five-year-old, at 21 lb., and he won the 

 Cesare witch Stakes easy, carrying 8 st. 3 lb. The 

 same year, at York, she won both the Great Northern 

 and Flying Dutchman Handicaps ; the 1,000 Guineas 

 Stake at Newmarket ; the Goodwood Cup and Nassau 

 Stakes ; the Yorkshire Oaks ; the Warwick and Don- 

 caster Cups — winning ten stakes out of eleven, of the 

 collective value of £9,750, beating seventy-six horses 

 and being herself only beat in one race (T. Y. C.) by 

 Ellermire, a two-year-old and very fast, at York 

 August meeting. 



Viragos defeat on this occasion may, I think, be 

 readily accounted for. She had already run and won 

 so many long races that her speed must have been a 

 bit diminished, and it was an entire mistake to run 

 her at all over so short a course. But then the owner 

 had to be considered ; and Mr. Padwick could never 

 keep a horse in the stable if he thought he had the 

 least chance of winning a ribbon — in which idiosyn- 

 crasy he followed the practice of that renowned and 

 original trainer, Mr. T. Parr— of whom more later ; 

 and I may add, of the late Mr. Osborne. Virago, I 

 should name, was tried at Findon before the Epsom 

 Spring Meeting with Little Harry, a five-year-old, at 

 10 lb., and beat him easy two and a quarter miles, myself 

 riding the old one, who was second, and the rest beat 



