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Young Sam's friends soon began to flock round him 

 again ; but his father's saddle career was over, and 

 he quitted Newmarket for London in 1806, never to 

 return to it. William Edwards had been riding for 

 the Prince in the interim, but his heart was still with 

 the Chifneys. A 200-guinea pension was bestowed 

 on old Sam for the life-time of his patron, which he 

 assigned, according [to the report in Bosanquet and 

 Puller, to one Sparkes, the year before he died, for 

 1,260 ; and when Sam had won his great New Claret 

 victory, in the First Spring Meeting of 1805, on Lord 

 Darlington's Pavilion, he received the royal jacket 

 which his father had sorrowfully " sent in " some 

 two years before. This memorable race was also 

 the means of permanently bringing him into the 

 Darlington riding. Pavilion was a fine dark-bay 

 horse, without any white ; but his private and public 

 performances so little entitled him to cope with his 

 opponents, that he was only quoted at 7 to 1 at start- 

 ing. Three such animals had never before been 

 stripped at Newmarket since the Derby, the St. Leger, 

 and the Oaks, had become lustre-giving names ; and 

 here each of them, in Hannibal (W. Arnull), Sancho 

 (Buckle), and Pelisse (Clift), sent forth its champion 

 of the preceding year to join in the D.I. fray, the 

 anticipation of which had fairly thrilled through 

 turfites for many a month before. Sancho' s fine size 

 and rare performances, to say nothing of the fascina- 

 tion which attached to the great " Frank" of that day, 

 brought him to 6 to 4, while Hannibal was at 3, and 

 Pelisse at 5 to 1. Sam, who still wanted some months 

 of nineteen, did not think that the trio were very far 

 out when they asked him, as the starter drew them 

 in line at the Ditch, if he had " come to look on ;" 

 but he patiently waited off, while Sancho forced the 

 running, made a rush a little beyond the Duke's 

 Stand, and astonished none among the thousands pre- 

 sent more than Lord Darlington and Perren, by com- 



