THE POST AND THE PADDOCK. 



challenged, and a most punishing head-and-head 

 struggle, in which the great Newmarket rivals seemed 

 to ride for ( ' Westminster Abbey or Victory," ended 

 in a dead heat. The Chifneys would have been glad 

 to compromise the race, and let the mare walk over ; 

 but the crowd was so great in those primitive days, 

 when Grand Stand enclosures were unknown, that 

 they could not find Sir Mark Wood. It is not likely 

 that the baronet would have fallen in with the offer, 

 as he had taken up some warm notions about a collision 

 which had occurred between the pair as Robinson 

 closed up, and would have it that Sam jostled his 

 mare; while Sam as stoutly maintained that the 

 mare had swerved on to his horse, and knocked him 

 out of his stride. In the second bout Rowton made 

 the running, Camarine waiting two lengths off; but 

 his leg failed him after he passed the Brick Kilns, 

 and the mare won easily. The produce of the two 

 or rather the two and Cetus in 1835, was the ches- 

 nut Glenlivat, who was brought to the hammer, when 

 a yearling, after Sir Mark Wood's death. He was 

 so wonderfully handsome and blood-looking, that 

 Lord Exeter bid him up to 1,000 guineas; but Lord 

 George Bentinck who then used Mr. Bowes' name 

 in his nominations went on with another ten-guinea 

 bid, and secured him. Will Chifney had told Mr. 

 Thornhill, who was anxious to bid, that he was not 

 worth a fifty-pound note ; and he turned out to be 

 nearly correct. He contrived, however, when re- 

 ceiving 361bs,, to break down Hetman Platoff in the 

 Leamington Stakes, in the same fashion that his 

 dam had eight years before treated his sire. Rowton 

 was also honoured with the smiles of the 1,100-guinea 

 Pucelle, when she was in the Duke of Cleveland's 

 stud; and from their union sprang Virginia, who 

 was in her turn the dam of Virago. 



Zinganee was tried so highly during the spring of 

 1828 that Mr. Thornhill, as well as his owners, stood 



