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treat of your uncle's riding such as you never saw yet. 

 He's got St. Francis in hand to-day, and I know what 

 a slug he is !" Accordingly the two stationed them- 

 selves at the turn of the lands, and when the horses 

 came towards them, Butler exclaimed " Why my 

 uncle's horse is dead beat he will be last !" " Come 

 along" rejoined Robinson, smiling; "you' II hear a 

 different tale at the chair ;" and when they did get 

 there, Frank vowed he would " take care and never 

 believe again that my uncle's beaten till he's past the 

 post." Lord Jersey, and two or three more of the 

 Jockey Club, saw the race about two distances from 

 home, and even there St. Francis seemed to be 

 shirking his work so completely from distress, that 

 they could hardly believe their ears, when they heard 

 that the judge had given him the race by two or 

 three lengths. 



Sam's riding of Bloomsbury against Robinson on 

 Clarion, for the Cesarewitch of 1839, also created a 

 great deal of talk at the time, and was one of the 

 most exciting finishes ever known on the Heath. 

 Coming through the Ditch-gap, he was nearly 150 

 yards behind the light weights, who were raking 

 away at a fearful pace ; but he crept up so gradually 

 inch by inch across the flat that when Robinson 

 found him at his quarters, he involuntarily exclaimed 

 " Where the devil did you come from?" His rush 

 was one of the most tremendous he ever made ; but 

 the horse flinched under nine stone, and he was most 

 bitterly disappointed to hear that the race had been 

 given against him by a neck. He came up right 

 under the judge's chair, while Clarion ran rather 

 wide, and he always maintained that the judge had 

 overlooked him. We cannot say how far his belief 

 was correct, but not a few sided with him ; and it 

 was well known to be rather a failing of the late Mr. 

 Clark's, to overlook the horse who ran close under 

 the chair, as in the cases of Little Red Rover, Stock- 

 well, and Merry Peal. Still these oversights, if they 



