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liis first winning mount at Newmarket, in a han- 

 dicap plate, against a field of ten. Frank (who rode 

 7st. 21bs. in the above race) was never in his uncle's 

 stables, but attended occasionally to gallop their 

 horses, and ride trials ; and he always owned with 

 honest family pride, that the eminence which he 

 afterwards attained in the saddle was not a little 

 owing to the valuable hints he received from them. 



Although William was hard hit by Prince Llewel- 

 lyn, he was so far from being disheartened, that he 

 gave John Scott 1,400 for Connoisseur, who had 

 run second for the Derb}^ and determined to make 

 a last effort for the St. Leger. The Whitewall form, 

 however, could not be improved upon, and the brown 

 son of Chateau Margaux and Frailty was sold; soon 

 after his Doncaster race, for 600 guineas, to Count 

 Batthyany, and died on ship board, en route to 

 Hungary. The defeat of the Duke of Cleveland's 

 Shillelah for the Derby, and the building of a hand- 

 some house at Newmarket, which was recently occu- 

 pied by the Bradleys, dealt a decisive blow to the 

 Chifney fortunes; and in the June of 1834, their 

 stud was brought to the hammer. The elegant 

 Rowton passed into Jem Eland's hands at 1,000 

 guineas, and Shillelah's dam and Emiliana at 320 

 guineas each ; while the Marquis of Westminster 

 bought a Whisker filly at 260 guineas, the same 

 price as was given by Lord Darlington for a Sam 

 mare. An Emilianus colt also went to Eaby, and a 

 Sam gelding was bought in. But once more were 

 the colours of the family seen at Epsom, where they 

 were sported by Frank Butler in his maiden mount 

 for the Derby, on The Athenian, in 1836. Frank's 

 luck on that occasion very faintly foreshadowed the 

 two St. Legers, two Derbies, and six Oaks which were 

 in store for him, as his sadly wayward colt, after 

 causing an infinity of false starts, was left behind at 

 the post. 



