Priam and Zinganee. 1 5 1 



rather a tall, short horse ; but although he was 

 slightly leggy, he could hardly be said to want 

 length. In height he was a trifle above fifteen-three, 

 rather light-limbed, and with lightish back-ribs, from 

 which his opponents especially drew their " short- 

 coursed" inferences. His great beauty lay in his fore- 

 hand ; and he had defep oblique shoulders, and one 

 of the most expressive and blood-like of heads. Lord 

 Darlington had well-nigh proved his evil genius, as 

 the horse caught a violent cold from a long inspec- 

 tion which he made of him when he passed through 

 Newmarket, to see his darling Derby hope, Wat 

 Tyler, on his road from the North during a very cold 

 March. Priam's throat swelled so much, that he 

 refused his corn, and at one time it 'seemed doubtful 

 whether he could come to the post for his Craven 

 Meeting engagements, for which his owners had 

 backed him very heavily. In the Riddlesworth race, 

 Will Chifney stationed himself halfway up the D.M., 

 and the horse was running so unkindly when he went 

 past him, that he sung out to Buckle some extempore 

 directions. "Frank" got a 5O/. douceur for his win, 

 as the Chifneys were always exceedingly liberal on 

 these occasions, and was thus apostrophized by Will 

 when they met in the weighing-house, " Why, Frank, 

 what the devil was you about for the first half mile 

 you rode him so contrary to your usual good style ?" 

 Buckle jokingly answered that Will was quite right, 

 but that the horse had been so awkward at starting, 

 that he could not get him settled into his stride till 

 they were nearly in the cords. Kean, who had run 

 second to Patron for the Two Thousand Guineas the 

 year before, and Flacrow, who afterwards became a 

 Melton crack, and distinguished himself by winning a 

 great steeple-chase in that district, gave him his 

 Derby work turn about, along with Wat Tyler, whom 

 Sam was to have ridden at Epsom. When the latter's 

 leg gave way at Mickleham, Will Chifney was in 



