6o MR. JOHN GULLY. 



was never the sole property of Gully ; and it will be 

 seen that ' the bitter pill,' so genially spoken of as 

 having been taken by ' old John Day,' was never 

 administered ; but instead a sweet oblivious antidote 

 in the shape of his retention intact of a share in a 

 valuable animal. So, too, in respect to Old England, 

 although undoubtedly Gully was pleased to call the 

 horse his own, and to usurp a discreditable control 

 over him which he was not entitled to exercise — an 

 attitude of which, I believe, he lived to repent — 

 during the whole period of his running, my father 

 had a half-share in him. 



It strikes me here to relate an interesting incident 

 in connection with the re-sale of Fortress herself. 

 Before leaving Danebury, on his temporary retire- 

 ment from business, my father sold his horses in 

 training, and mares and foals. The then Mr. Kichard 

 Tattersall, father of the late gentleman of that name, 

 was officiating. Before the sale, Lord Caledon wrote 

 to my father to say he wished he would go as far as 

 2,000 guineas for Fortress for him, he having offered 

 previously that sum for her. This he agreed to do ; 

 but forgot all about it till near the fall of the hammer, 

 before the limit was half reached ; when my father, 

 naturally in some haste, made one bid, and bought 

 her. He at once informed Mr. Tattersall that the 

 mare was bought for Lord Caledon. But the great 

 salesman was mightily annoyed. 



' Sir,' he said, in a towering passion, addressing 



