156 THE POST AND THE PADDOCK. 



Duke of Portland's horses over the Bunbury Mile. 

 Lord George Bentinck and a friend were looking on, 

 about half way, while the Duke of Portland, accord- 

 ing to his wont, stood at the ending post. As the 

 two passed them, Zinganee seemed beaten off, and 

 hence they were not a little surprised when the Duke 

 told them that he had only given it by a neck against 

 the old horse. He only once got as far as Doncaster, 

 where he ran a " half head " second to Tyke for the 

 Fitzwilliam Stakes, and was forthwith scratched for 

 the Cup, where Voltaire would have shown him 

 monstrous little mercy. Sam was engaged to ride 

 him for both races ; but he was so confident, on see- 

 ing him, that there would be no Cup mount, that he 

 begged off, and Will Arnull took his place. After 

 winning such an Ascot Cup but three months be- 

 fore, he could not bear to be beaten on him, and he 

 felt that a fond public would lay 7 to 2 on a horse 

 whom he knew to be some 121bs. below the form 

 which he had run to in his own and his brother's 

 hands, and not put the most charitable constructions 

 on his defeat. In fact, he was only once more on 

 his back, and then the horse was " as weak as water," 

 and had some trouble in being a decent last for 

 the Cup, which he had won so proudly the year 

 before. His leg gave way in the First October of 

 that year, when he met Cadland for the Whip, and 

 his chequered career soon afterwards came to a 

 close. For a few seasons he was put to the stud in 

 England, but his stock were generally very light, 

 and although Beggarman and Chymist, out of Oxy- 

 gen, ran fairly, he did but little for the fame of 

 Tramp, and ended his days, like Kowton and Priam, 

 in America. 



It was on a fine morning (as the novelists remark) 

 just before the July meeting of 1828, that the Chif- 

 neys sauntered out together to look at Sir John 

 Shelley's young things, which had come up to New- 



