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propensity he gave sufficient proof on one occasion. 

 He won on Virago as a three-year-old £80,000 in 

 bets, and lost this immense amount or more the same 

 year on the Stock Exchange, on information that an 

 astute City man would have scouted as slender as a 

 thread. He was undoubtedly a confederate with John 

 Gully in Andover and other horses, and was even 

 reputed to have been connected in the same way with 

 the redoubtable Harry Hill, although my brother 

 John always assured me there was no truth in the 

 latter report. He was often at Danebury when Hill 

 was there, which fact may have given rise to the 

 rumour. The three were often seen on the race- 

 course in company, although both Gully and Hill 

 were too clever to accompany Mr. Padwick to the 

 gaming-tables at the different race-meetings and other 

 places, to whose incomings he must have been a mine 

 of wealth. 



He trained at White wall, Danebury, Epsom, and 

 other places ; but never with the success he attained 

 at Findon, where shortly after the episode above 

 related, my father, on retiring from active life, was 

 succeeded by Mr. William Goater, an unpretending 

 but accomplished trainer and an estimable man, who 

 did him justice with the rest of his clients. Mr. 

 Padwick had other trainers, and his restless spirit 

 was always seeking some new venture for the useless 

 purpose of adding further store to his accumulated 

 wealth. But virtually his racing career was at an 



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