5 8 MR. JOHN GULLY. 



Up to the time they were thus parted with, they 

 were, like Andover, trained at Danebury, and both 

 were, as I have said, the joint property of my father 

 and Mr. Gully. But just to show how history is 

 sometimes written, I may mention that in respect to 

 the ownership of these two celebrities, the following 

 appeared in the pages of an anonymous contemporary : 

 ■ He, Gully, was formidable with Weatherbit and 

 Old England, and in 1846 won the Derby with 

 Pyrrhus the First, and the Oaks with Mendicant, an 

 exploit which has only once been accomplished before, 

 when Sir Charles Bunbury's Eleanor carried off both 

 trophies. The victory of Pyrrhus the First must 

 have been a bitter pill for old John Day, who had 

 purchased him at Doncaster as a yearling, Mr. Gully 

 agreeing to go halves with him. The horse never 

 ran as a two-year-old, and John Day, being in want 

 of money, valued his share of Pyrrhus at the end of 

 the year at £100, which Mr. Gully promptly gave 

 him.' 



Now, whatever knowledge the writer may have 

 had of this matter, without the charge of egotism I 

 may say I am likely to know more, and may not 

 therefore be thought critically captious in stating 

 the actual facts. Pyrrhus the First was never at 

 Doncaster, and therefore could not have been bought 

 there as a yearling. Having thus disposed of the 

 writer's assertion as to where he was bought, by show- 

 ing where he was not bought, I come to answer that 



