AN INCIDENT AT CHESTER RACES. 77 



clued to a baritone, " The Cats on the Housetops are 

 Mewing, Love." Gully lighted a cigar, Bill Scott a 

 clay, the latter remarking that if Pedley was not 

 audible at Cambridge it was not for want of bellows, 

 and that he was a real stunner at a chorus.' 



With the acute sagacity of all his class, Pedley was 

 never known to lay more than the proper odds, except 

 in the case of ' sickness.' Then he would be a little 

 more liberal in his terms ; sometimes, indeed, even to 

 rashness in desperate cases. He had several horses, 

 which he trained at Danebury, and won the Derby with 

 Cossack in 1847. The victory appears to have done 

 him but a temporary service, as he came to grief 

 shortly afterwards. I learned he was poor quite 

 accidentally. I saw him at Chester in Our Mary 

 Ann's year, 1870, and he asked me what I would 

 advise him to back. I told him to have £100 on her, 

 as I thought she would win, and was worth the in- 

 vestment. With mournful significance he replied, ' I 

 wish I could ;' and added, ' Things now with me are 

 very different from what they used to be.' After the 

 race he came and heartily thanked me. He had won 

 £500, which he took to a pony, as he could afford to 

 stand to lose no more, and it had saved him. This was 

 the last time I ever saw him. He married one of Mr. 

 Gully's daughters, and so became a member of the 

 Danebury Kacing Confederacy ; and died shortly after 

 the event I have just related, in anything but 

 flourishing circumstances. I may mention that 



