90 The Post and the Paddock. 



career was over, and he quitted Newmarket ^ for 

 London in 1806, never to return to it. William 

 Edwards had been riding for the Prince in the in- 

 terim, but his heart was still with the Chifneys. A 

 2OO-guinea pension was bestowed on old Sam for the 

 lifetime of his patron, which he assigned, according to 

 the report in Bosanquet and Puller, to one Sparkes, 

 the year before he died, for I26o/. ; and when Sam 

 had won his great New Claret victory, in the First 

 Spring Meeting of 1805, on Lord Darlington's Pavi- 

 lion, he received the royal jacket which his father had 

 sorrowfully "sent in" some two years before. This 

 memorable race was also the means of permanently 

 bringing him into the Darlington riding. Pavilion 

 was a fine dark-bay horse, without any white ; but 

 his private and public performances so little entitled 

 him to cope with his opponents, that he was only 

 quoted at 7 to I at starting. Three such animals had 

 never before been stripped at Newmarket since the 

 Derby, the St. Leger, and the Oaks had become 

 lustre-giving names ; and here each of them, in Han- 

 nibal (W. Arnull), Sancho (Buckle), and Pelisse 

 (Clift), sent forth its champion of the preceding 

 year to join in the D. I. fray, the anticipation of 

 which had fairly thrilled through turfites for many 

 a month before. Sancho's fine size and rare perfor- 

 mances, to say nothing of the fascination which 

 attached to the great " Frank" of that day, brought 

 him to 6 to 4, while Hannibal was at 3, and Pelisse 

 at 5 to I. Sam, who still w r anted some months of 

 nineteen, did not think that the trio were very far out 

 when they asked him, as the starter drew them in 

 line at the Ditch, if he had " come to look on ;" but 

 he patiently waited off, while Sancho forced the run- 

 ning, made a rush a little beyond the Duke's stand, 

 and astonished none among the thousands present 

 more than Lord Darlington and Perren, by coming in 

 some two lengths first. Sancho could not have run 



