138 THE POST AND THE PADDOCK. 



Sam Chifney for the day. He had nominally come 

 to Epsom in Perren's charge ; but as it was thought 

 better that there should be a divided duty, a friendly 

 arrangement was entered into, and Will Chifney had 

 the sole management, for the fortnight, of the horse, 

 which his brother was to steer. The series of false 

 starts rather upset ft Sam," who consequently gave 

 his namesake not a little trouble at the post. Owing 

 io the hard state of the ground, the race was run 

 from end to end in a cloud of dust, and it was only 

 when they neared the distance post, and the beaten 

 horses dropped out of the front rank, that Sam 

 caught a glimpse of the one horse (Prince Paul) 

 he at all feared, and quickly crept up to make his 

 challenge. Robinson had won his maiden Derby on 

 Azor in the preceding year, and though Sam had no 

 brace of St. Legers on his list, the luck of the two at 

 Epsom was in a measure equal, as the one won two 

 Derbies and five Oaks, and the other vice versd. 

 When the two Sams returned to Newmarket, Ben 

 Marshall was commissioned to paint a picture of 

 them, which was hung forthwith in the dining-room 

 ^at Riddlesworth. In the following year he painted 

 one of Shoveller to match it, in which Will Chifney 

 holds the mare by the head, while a lad is rubbing 

 her down. Sam was fond enough, in after-years, of 

 strolling into one of his stables, in which Marshall 

 perpetually set up his easel, on account of its excel- 

 lent lights, and peeping over his shoulder while he 

 was at work ; but no one disliked sitting for his like- 

 ness so much. "Never easy, Mr. Chifney, when 

 you're near an easel," was the old painter's favourite 

 pun; but on this occasion, while his first Derby 

 laurels were still fresh, he was pretty patient in Ben's 

 hands, and, though the lips are perhaps rather thick, 

 the Riddlesworth portrait aptly represents the coun- 

 tenance and long easy seat of the jockey of thirty- 

 two. Herring painted his likeness in after-years in 



