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John Gully - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | John Gully (August 21, 1783 - March 9, 1863), English sportsman and politician, was born at Wick, near Bath, the son of an innkeeper. |
 | | In partnership with John Day he won the Two Thousand Guineas with Ugly Buck in 1844, and two years later he took the Derby and the Oaks with Pyrrhus the First and Mendicant, in 1854 the Two Thousand Guineas with Hermit, and in the same year, in partnership with Henry Padwick, the Derby with Andover. |
 | | Gully makes a notable appearance in Royal Flash, in George MacDonald Fraser's, Flashman series of books, and was played by Henry Cooper in the 1975 film version. |
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