vi CONTENTS. 



loser by racing or betting — Curious settlement of trainers' 

 accounts — Propensity to bet — First transaction with Mr. 

 Padwick — How a debt of £22,000 was created — Another deal 

 and its result — Mr. Padwick as owner of Spye Park — Bound 

 to ruin himself — Other examples and their lesson— Idiosyn- 

 crasies ; curious ' get-up ;' mode of travelling ; delight in 

 ' attending a toilet ' — Personal experience of giving my 

 name ; a ' tidy ' practitioner — His end, and sale of Spye 

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CHAPTER IV. 



M K. J O II N G U L L Y. 



Connection with ' The Danebury Confederacy ' — Origin — Thrashes 

 a bully — Introduction to the Ring — Fights Pierce and Greg- 

 son — Owen Swift's trial — Personal appearance — Joint owner- 

 ship of A ndover, Mendicant, and Pyrrhus the First — ' Old John 

 Day's bitter pill '■ — The true story ; my father's real interest 

 in these — Mr. R. Tattersall and the purchase of Fortress for 

 Lord Caledon — The model auctioneer — Gully's assault on 

 Mr. Ridsdale— A ' view-holloa ' by the Bar — Duel with ' The 

 Squire ' — Interference between my father and brother ; dis- 

 ruption of the Danebury stud — Harry Hill turned out of 

 Whitewall — Danebury to-day — Gully and Hill's connection in 

 racing — Silent wisdom — The bull and the red-coat — Police- 

 men treated as nine-pins — His end - 53-6G 



CHAPTER V. 



'the danebury confederacy.' 



Commissioners and their instructors — How Gully and Hill made 



fortunes — Laying against ' dead uns ' — Gulling the public — 



Universal temptation — A view of turf parasites in 1832 ; 



Richardson, Bland, and others. 



Harry Hill ; origin — 'A thimble and a pea' — Lord George's 

 contempt — Exposed by Mr. Rayuer — Disadvantages of lying 

 — Hill's dress and diversions ; loses £20,000 — Frank Butler 

 ' carpeted ' — Caught on the Stock Exchange— ' An economic 

 principle ' — Intestacy and disappearance of his money. 



Mr. Pedley as a bookmaker and songster — Wins the Derby 

 with Cossack— Subsequent poverty — An incident at Chester 

 races — Joshua Arnold — Saucebox sold below his value — Mr. 

 Turner, another of the clique — The moral, and a plea for it 



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