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from his course as Frank Buckle from the path of honour 

 and duty. The younger Sam Chifney was, indeed, the laziest 

 of mortals. Mount after mount was refused by him rather 

 than exert himself to travel a few miles away from New- 

 market, and even upon the Heath itself he was constantly too 

 late to ride a trial or a race in \\hich he had promised to take 

 part. Although the title of ' Old Screw ' was bestowed upon 

 him by his contemporaries, it had nothing to do with financial 

 thrift. To the close of Will Chifney's life we adverted in the 

 last chapter, and that of Sam Chifney ended at Brighton, 

 where he had long been in receipt of a pension from Frank 

 Butler his nephew. In one respect, however, residents of 

 the British metropolis have been gainers during the last thirty 

 years by the dishonesty of Sam Chifney, the younger. For 

 the Derby of 181 2 Mr. W. N. W. Hewett's Manuella, ridden 

 by Chifney, started first favourite at 7 to 2. She failed to 

 get a place, and her owner, who had backed her for a very 

 large sum, was ruined. In the Oaks she started at 20 to 

 I, and was ridden by William Peirse. One single bet of 2000 

 to 100 was taken about her, not by her owner or trainer, 

 but by the jockey who had ridden her for the Derby, and 

 knew that she would win the Oaks in a canter, which she 

 did. Mr. Hewett, accompanied by a large family of boys, 

 transferred himself to Paris, and it was in the hospitals of the 

 French metropolis that one of his sons acquired the rudiments 

 of surgery. In this manner a later generation of Englishmen 

 have had cause to thank the corrupt riding of Chifney in the 

 Derby of 181 2 for one of the most accomphshed surgeons that 

 ever lived — the present Sir Prescott Hewett. 



A better illustration of the rascally and unscrupulous type of 

 jockey than the one-eyed Harry Edwards it would be impos- 

 sible to select from the list given above. He was one of the 

 many sons of James, or ' Tiny,' Edwards, who trained for 

 Lord Jersey and Sir John Shelley, and astonished the Princa 

 Regent during one of his visits to Newmarket by ' the multi- 

 tude of jockeys ' to whom he and his wife had given birth. 



