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Wood Green, which is close to Highgate Old Cemetery, where he could 

 be the nearer to the remains of the man who was the object of his fervent 

 and life-long admiration. Brunton survived his principal for twenty-one 

 years, during which time it is recorded that no one dared say a word 

 in his presence derogatory of the champion. This I can well under- 

 stand from the manner in which he spoke of Sayers upon the one 

 occasion when I paid him a visit. Brunton died at the Nag's Head, 

 June 9, 1886, aged sixty, and now the two friends rest alongside each 

 other until " Time " shall be called by the Great Referee. 



BETTING. 

 Chapter XX. 



Heavy Bettors.— Besides those mentioned at p. 335 the following 

 were some of the heaviest backers of horses of their day : Lord Barry more, 

 Charles James Fox (Prime Minister), Colonel Anson, Hon. Richard 

 Yernon, Lord Kennedy, General Berkeley Craven (who shot himself the 

 evening of Bay Middleton's Derby), Mr. George Payne, Mr. FredGretton, 

 the Marquis of Ailesbury, and for a time Capt. Machell. Lord George 

 •Cavendish, early in the century, also betted heavily, and in the memor- 

 able match (referred to at p. 385) between Sir Joshua, of which he was 

 part owner, and Filho da Puta, which took place at the Craven Meet- 

 ing at Newmarket in 1816, he won nearly £50,000 from the Yorkshire- 

 men, taking all the bets offered at 5 to 4, then evens, and finally laying 

 5 to 4. So did his relative. Lord George Bentinck, win nearly the same 

 amount over his mare Miss Elis, when she won the Stakes and Cup, at 

 Goodwood, in 1849. 



Mr. George Payne for many years was a consistent follower of Alec 

 Taylor's stable, and at times plunged heavily. Of course, he won 

 occasionally, but in the end, like everyone else, he had to his credit a 

 great deal less money than he began with. Teddington, then the joint 

 property of Sir Joseph Hawtey and Mr. Massey Stanley, won Mr. 

 Payne a big stake over the Derby, but it was nothing to what he stood 

 to win on Savernake in 1866, when he was beaten a short head by 

 Lord Lyon, after one of the grandest races ever seen at Epsom. Mr. 

 Payne sustained even a greater disappointment with "brother to Flurry," 

 afterwards named Pell Mell, in the Leger of 1872, when that horse lost 

 the race to Wenlock by an equally short shave, Payne and all the 

 stable having plunged to win an enormous stake, but as they got on 

 at very long odds the losses were not unusually great. 



A Good " System."— Exemplifying what I state in the third 

 paragraph at p. 338, the most any man should lay aside for backing 

 horses is one-tenth of his income — same as what a prudent man allots 

 for the rent of his house — and he should not risk more than one-tenth 

 of that in any one bet, and when the lot is lost he should knock off till 



