MEN OF MY TIME. 



he named after his own place, Coldrenick, and sent to 

 be trained. The animal had good speed, but could not 

 stay, and was beat easily in the Derby by Attila, and 

 others. Nevertheless, for ' a dark horse,' he was made 

 one of the strongest favourites, I should think, that 

 ever ran for it. Mr. Trelawney did not, as a rule, bet ; 

 but on this occasion, at the instigation of his trainer, 

 he backed the horse at long odds for several hundreds, 

 yet the sum did not reach four figures. The result 

 will serve as an illustration of what the officiousness 

 of friends may do for us. Having backed him at 

 long odds, and the horse becoming favourite, my 

 father now advised him, as a matter of prudence, to 

 lay short odds against him to the amount he had 

 backed him for. Mr. Trelawney's answer was : 



' When you have the opportunity and can, do it 

 for me.' 



This commission was soon effected, and the -price 

 and amount sent to Mr. Trelawney, but not the 

 name of the bookmaker — an omission which my 

 father, for his own sake, should not have made. It 

 was then that the candid friend came on the scene, 

 whose interference might in the end have been harm- 

 ful, as we shall learn, to the interests he intended to 

 protect. Sir William Cawl said to Mr. Trelawney that 

 the names should have been given in with the bets; 

 in consequence they were asked for, and immediately 

 sent. One bet, £2,000 to £1,000, had been booked 

 to Mr. Josiah Anderson, the well-known singer and 



