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The series of false starts rather upset " Sam," who 

 consequently gave his namesake not a little trouble 

 at the post. Owing to the hard state of the ground, 

 the race was run from end to end in a cloud of dust, 

 and it was only when they neared the distance post, 

 and the beaten horses dropped out of the front rank, 

 that Sam caught a glimpse of the one horse (Prince 

 Paul) he at all feared, and quickly crept up to make 

 his challenge. Robinson had won his maiden Derby 

 on Azor in the preceding year, and though Sam had 

 no brace of St. Legers on his list, the luck of the two 

 at Epsom was in a measure equal, as the one won two 

 Derbies and five Oaks, and the other vice versa. When 

 the two Sams returned to Newmarket, Ben Marshall 

 was commissioned to paint a picture of them, which 

 was hung forthwith in the dining-room at Riddles- 

 worth. In the following year he painted one of 

 Shoveller to match it, in which Will Chifney holds 

 the mare by the head, while a lad is rubbing her down. 

 Sam was fond enough in after-years, of strolling into 

 one of his stables, in which Marshall perpetually set 

 up his easel, on account of its excellent lights, and 

 peeping over his shoulder while he was at work ; but 

 no one disliked sitting for his likeness so much. 

 " Never easy, Mr. Chifney, when you're near an easel" 

 was the old painter's favourite pun ; but on this occa- 

 sion, while his first Derby laurels were still fresh, he 

 was pretty patient in Ben's hands, and, though the 

 lips are perhaps rather thick, the Riddlesworth por- 

 trait aptly represents the countenance and long easy 

 seat of the jockey of thirty-two. Herring painted his 

 likeness in after-years in the great picture which he 

 executed for Lord Kelburne, of the York Match, 

 and also in his start for the Derby ; he never sat to 

 Harry Hall, but a most capital full front likeness of 

 him in the Darlington colours, by Spalding, is to be 

 seen in the centre of the sheet-picture of Southern 

 Jockeys. 



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