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Sam. In 1842 he rode the bay colt by Agreeable, 

 dam by Sam, for Mr. Meiklam, in the Derby, where 

 he ran fifth ; and also wasted and went to Doncaster 

 to ride the same colt for the St. Leger, for which he 

 was " milked" and scratched. His 1843*44 mounts 

 were entirely confined to Mr. Thornhill, at whose 

 Newmarket house and stables he resided till the 

 November of 1851, when he removed to Hove, near 

 Brighton. At Newmarket, his great pleasure, for 

 the six years after he retired, was to stroll out on to 

 ths heath to see the gallops ; but he was very indif- 

 ferent about races generally, except when really good 

 horses were to meet. He bade farewell to Newmar- 

 ket with the Houghton Meeting of 1852, and never 

 visited Epsom after the day that ' ' Frank" and West 

 Australian won the Derby. The last race-meeting 

 that he ever attended was the Brighton one of the 

 same year, as he was too ill to get so far even from 

 Hove, when its next anniversary came round. We 

 spied his spare figure, in his black surtout and 

 large hat, for the last time, as he quietly strolled 

 down Piccadilly, and chatted with a few friends in 

 front of the White Bear, on a fine June day, just 

 before the Ascot Meeting of 1853. He had been ill 

 about a month before he died; and his brother 

 William (who still lingers on the Heath with all the 

 devotion of earlier and brighter days) had been to 

 visit him ; but a second summons failed to reach him 

 in time, and when he saw him again, he was in his 

 coffin. His death took place towards the end of 

 August, 1854, two months before he had completed 

 his 69th year, and ten years and a- quarter after he 

 had quitted the saddle, and he was buried in the 

 beautiful churchyard of Hove, which lies hard by his 

 late residence. 



Brighton and its neighbourhood had always been 

 a favourite spot with him, as he remembered it in 

 the days when the Prince Regent kept court at its 



