OWNERSHIP OF 'LEAMINGTON: 39 



appeared delighted, as we may be sure were the 

 fielders ; but not so his friends and followers, who 

 were dreadfully crestfallen at such an unlooked-for 

 and disastrous result. 



Fisherman again, though he ran in the name of 

 Mr. T. Parr and Mr. Higgins, as well as his own, 

 belonged, Mr. Starkey assured me, to himself ; and I 

 think it very probable it was so. In four years he 

 won sixty-nine races of the value of £10,517., and was 

 sold for, I believe, £1,500 to go abroad. If to this 

 £12,000 we add £3,000 for the winnings of Land 

 Tax, Veridas, and his other horses, it would give a 

 total gain of £15,000. Moreover, I have Mr. Starkey's 

 authority for believing that Leamington was always 

 his. He ran, it is true, in Mr. Higgins's name, as did 

 Fisherman at times also. But as there were extensive 

 monetary transactions between the two gentlemen, it 

 is fair to assume that when the horses passed into 

 Mr. Higgins's hands for money advanced, and from 

 him to Mr. Starkey, most likely for a deferred pay- 

 ment in the shape of a bill not met at maturity, they 

 would ostensibly reappear as Mr. Higgins's property ; 

 and in spite of the many changes of ownership, they 

 would really always have remained the redeemable 

 property of Mr. Starkey, as he always positively 

 asserted they were. Leamington won the Chester 

 Cup twice, besides other large stakes, and was 

 ultimately sold to go to America, where, like another 

 expatriated horse, Buccaneer, who got Kisber in 



