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not himself win any * classic ' race or leave upon the 

 history of the Jockey Club and of the Turf anything 

 like the impression which his namesake William has 

 left upon the history of literature. Mr. Thornhill is 

 a very noteworthy member of the Jockey Club. He 

 was the famous Master of Eiddlesworth (the name 

 of his estate in Norfolk, from which the once very 

 fashionable Kiddlesworth Stakes at Newmarket re- 

 ceived its designation, and also the horse Biddies- 

 worth, that was so strong a favourite for the Derby 

 in 1831, but was beaten by the rank outsider Spaniel), 

 who won the Derby with Sam on May 28, 1818, which 

 was the anniversary of Sam's birth, and with Sailor 

 (died at exercise in the autumn of the year) in 1820, 

 and ' sandwiched in,' as it was said, an Oaks with 

 Shoveler (own sister to Sailor) on May 28, 1819, all 

 three winners bred by him and by the same sire, 

 called Scud (by Beningbrough) , so that when Sailor 

 won the Derby in a hurricane it was considered to 

 be mighty appropriate. Mr. Thornhill also won the 

 Ascot Cup with Anticipation in 1816, and the One 

 Thousand with Extempore in 1848, ran a dead-heat 

 with Euclid (beaten by Charles the Twelfth in a decider) 

 for the St. Leger in 1839, and was himself beaten in 

 a match by Death in 1844, when he was found to 

 have bequeathed, it is said, to his favourite jockey, 

 Sam Chifney, junior, the hero of the * rush ' (after 

 whom the horse Sam was named), his Newmarket 

 house and stables ' for life,' though the jockey left 



