i4 MR. HENRY PAD WICK. 



other. But I hold that the pace was not so good in 

 the second race, of which a dead-heat was made owing 

 to the riding of my brother Alfred, who was up, care- 

 full}" nursing the horse to the last and coming with 

 one rush. That this was so, was proved in the follow- 

 ing year, when The Baron beat both Kingston and 

 Joe Miller easily in the Derby, running third to 

 Daniel G'Rourhe and Barbarian; a race, however, 

 which seemed to have upset him, insomuch that he 

 could beat nothing after, and was indeed beat in turn 

 in a canter at Stockbridge by the others. 



Joe Miller was second to Frantic for the Goodwood 

 Nursery Stakes, and would have won had he not been 

 shut in opposite the stand. Yet Mr. Padwick would 

 not see his merits even here, and asked Alfred to ride 

 him for the King John Stakes at Egham, when he 

 was last. Now the latter, it pleased Mr. Padwick to 

 conclude, was his true form ; that, in short, the horse 

 was good for nothing, and that he would be wise to 

 get rid of his share in him. Mr. Francis Clarke (the 

 ' Argus ' of BelVs Life in those days), a friend of all 

 parties, was called in to say what Mr. Padwick's share 

 was worth, and he put it at £750, or about double 

 what it would have fetched at public auction. Yet, 

 as it turned out the next year, this proved to be but 

 a tithe of his value ; for he won among other races 

 the Chester Cup, beating forty-two other horses, and 

 the Emperor's Plate at Ascot, in which Voltigeur, 

 Hobbie Noble, and six others were behind him, £3,830 



