4 o JOHN BAYNTON STARKEY, ESQ. 



Austria, he became the sire of a Derby winner in 

 Iroquois. 



If we value Leamington and his earnings at the 

 moderate figure of £10,000, we have a total of £25,000 

 as representing Mr. Starkey's winnings. Thus it 

 appears that racing in itself could not have cost him 

 anything, or perhaps I should say ought not to have 

 done so. And this more particularly because he was 

 never known to have backed a horse for anything 

 above £10, or at the outside for a pony — except on 

 Veridas at Stockbridge, when, as the plungers say, 

 he plunged like the rest of them. But generally he 

 was content to put on a couple of sovereigns ; and 

 often his horses ran without his having a shilling on 

 them. If they were fortunate enough to win, if only 

 a £50 Plate, he was as pleased as though he had won 

 a thousand, not seeing or recognising that in exposing 

 a good horse he had thrown away the chance of 

 winning ten times that amount. On such races, at all 

 events, his winnings must have exceeded his losses. 

 In short, I may say he raced but a few years with 

 a stud that might have been purchased and kept the 

 whole of the time for about £20,000, and, judiciously 

 managed, might have recouped its owner both capital 

 and expenditure and a large sum by way of profit — 

 and did, in fact, as I have shown, return Mr. Starkey 

 more than this amount in stakes. And yet we find 

 the turf loaded with the opprobrium of having, in 

 this brief time, ruined an intelligent, generous, and 



