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They tried to make out he had crossed me, but I 

 would' nt have it, and stuck to it he had fairly out- 

 ridden me he's a rum-un to ride against, is Sam." 

 To see Sam and Robinson eyeing each other's horses 

 before a great race or match, and to hear their dry, 

 quaint mode of chaffing each other on the point, was 

 no slight treat ; and when they were once off, Sam 

 would invariably keep lurching behind so directly 

 in his leader's track, that with all his glances, he 

 could hardly tell on which side the challenge would 

 come, till he found him suddenly at his quarters. 

 The Chifney rush became so famed, and was so dan- 

 gerous an experiment in the hands of any one who 

 was not a consummate judge of exactly what was left 

 in a horse, that scores of races have been thrown 

 away by a feeble imitation of it. Frank Butler had 

 many a hint and lesson from his uncle, but his style 

 was principally modelled upon Robinson's, and was 

 more neat and less powerful than "uncle Sam's." 

 In his earlier days, he was apt to wait off too long, 

 and not steal up to his leaders till the race became 

 too severe for him to get on to terms with them. Still 

 as a tryer and rider of a race-horse, he had but very 

 few equals ; and he was alike suited whether he was 

 winning a match or lying away on a roarer, a class 

 of horse on which he was pre-eminent. It was one 

 of his especial whims to be last out of the Epsom pad- 

 dock, and he was equally tenacious on this point "for 

 luck," whether he was on little Daniel O'Rourke or 

 West Australian. 



Frank Buckle weighed in for the last time on No- 

 vember 5th, 1831, and before that time next year, the 

 antique quaintly-carved tomb of " Samuel Buckle, 

 merchant, Peterborough," which forms such a mas- 

 sive object on the south side of the beautiful church- 

 yard of Long Orton, had received its new tenant. 

 There are scarcely three jockeys in the saddle now, 

 who witnessed the energetic set-to of that Pocket 



