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of dress, and left off his kerseymere breeches and top- 

 boots, for trousers, frock-coat, and blue neck-tie. He 

 is thus described by c Druid ' in ' Post and Paddock :' 

 ' His fame at the Corner was at its zenith about the 

 year 1830, when he was a betting partner with Kids- 

 dale. His countenance was calm, but defiant ; and 

 whether on horseback or on foot, his carriage was disc- 

 nified and manly — such as few would excel ; and he 

 was said to be one of the finest men that ever lived.' 

 Mr. Gully was a heavy backer of horses, and kept 

 a few in several stables ; but mostly ran them in 

 assumed names of mythical persons, until, when 

 racing at White wall and afterwards at Danebury, he 

 ran them in his own name. He lost a good horse 



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in The Era, when he ran in a Selling Plate at 

 Doncaster out of the Whitewall stable. He was only 

 part-owner of Andover with Mr. Pad wick, when the 

 horse won the Derby of 1854. Nor had he ever more 

 than a half-share in Mendicant and Pyrrhus the 

 First, which shares my father sold him when they 

 were yearlings, after Lord George Bentinck refused 

 to take the former, for whom she was originally 

 bought of Mr. Whitworth, of Bury, Lancashire, for 

 £300. After winning the Derby and Oaks in 1846, 

 the One Thousand Guineas, and other stakes, they 

 were sold, the one to Mr. Elwes, and the mare to Sir 

 Joseph Hawley, in whose hands, in course of time, 

 she became the founder of his celebrated stud, and 

 dam of Beadsman, the Derbv winner in 1858. 



