MR. HENRY PAD WICK. 



incidents in racing for which no satisfactory account 

 can be given by anyone. Nevertheless, in these 

 transactions Mr. Pad wick may be adjudged the 

 salesman without an equal, in having got rid of three 

 horses in training for the extraordinary sum of £22,000, 

 or an average of £7,333 each ; and not only credited 

 with having thus secured a small fortune, but also 

 with the judgment shown in selecting the time for 

 parting with them — just when they had done all the 

 good they were likely to do for him or anyone else, 

 and had shown public form sufficient to enhance their 

 value in the eyes of eager purchasers. 



Nevertheless, with all his acumen, Mr. Padwick 

 was not a good judge of racing. His study had been 

 the study of mankind and the state of their exchequer, 

 rather than the merits of his horses and where to 

 place them with the best chance of success. One 

 instance that came under my own observation will 

 serve to show this disability on his part. In the 

 spring of 1861 he came to see Ahediston, who was 

 then very big (if any of my horses in training were 

 ever thought to be so), not having to run early. On 

 his return the next day he wrote and expressed his 

 wish that the horse should run shortly after at Epsom 

 in the "Woodcote Stakes. I reasoned with him on the 

 impropriety of doing anything so indiscreet ; but to 

 entreaty he remained inexorable. The horse ran, was 

 well beaten, and he lost his money, as he richly deserved 

 to do. He then arranged that the horse should be 



