LORD DARLINGTON AND MR. THORNHILL. J45 



match at the same weights and distance. Mr. Charl- 

 ton jumped at such an apparently foolhardy offer, 

 and was not a little chagrined at the result. 



During the seasons 1830-42, Mr. ThornhilPs 

 horses were in the hands of Pettit ; and Connolly had 

 nearly all the mounts above 7st. 71b. Still, auld ac- 

 quaintance could not be entirely forgotten, and Sam 

 appeared in the Riddlesworth colours at intervals, 

 and won two matches in them on Menalippe in 1840. 

 It was owing also to the express wish of Mr. Thorn- 

 hill, who was very intimate, and trained with Mr. 

 Gurney, that he rode and won the Ascot Cup on that 

 very peculiar horse St. Francis. In 1843, the season 

 after poor Connolly died, Mr. ThornhnTs horses were 

 placed under his charge, both to train and ride. The 

 lot consisted of Extempore, Elixir, Example, Eringo, 

 Elemi, and one or two others ; and were certainly 

 not calculated, in cardsellers' parlance, " to do much 

 for the owner's name," although the blood of Emilius 

 coursed in their veins. This magnificent son of Or- 

 ville, whom he purchased for Mr. Udney, for 1,800 

 guineas, was quite as dear to Mr. Thornhill as ever 

 Touchstone was to the late Marquis of Westminster. 

 The old horse survived Buckle, who rode him for the 

 Derby, when he made all the running to Tattenham 

 Corner, was headed, and then " came again, 57 nearly 

 seventeen years, and his owner, who left special in- 

 junctions that he should never be sold, for nearly 

 four years. He was buried near the ruins of Easby 

 Abbey, at whose stud farm he died (within a few 

 months of Mulatto, The Colonel, and the Saddler), 

 leaving Priam, Plenipo, Mango, Euclid, and Oxygen 

 to keep his memory green in the Epsom and Don- 

 caster annals. Of the high-bred " EV which Sam 

 Chifney had in hand, Extempore, own sister to Eu- 

 clid, was quite the flower; and the old jockey, who 

 was then not many years short of sixty, donned the 

 sweaters again with no little heart, to take off some 



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