160 The Post and the Paddock. 



attended occasionally to gallop their horses, and ride 

 trials ; and he always owned with honest family 

 pride, that the eminence which he afterwards attained 

 in the saddle was not a little owing to the valuable 

 hints he received from them. 



Although William was hard hit by Prince Llewellyn, 

 he was so far from being disheartened, that he gave 

 John Scott I4OO/. for Connoisseur, who had run 

 second for the Derby, and determined to make a last 

 effort for the St. Leger. The Whitewall form, how- 

 ever, could not be improved upon, and the brown son 

 of Chateau Margaux and Frailty was sold, soon after 

 his Doncaster race, for 600 guineas, to Count 

 Batthyany, and died on shipboard, en route to Hun- 

 gary. The defeat of the Duke of Cleveland's Shil- 

 lelah for the Derby, and the building of a handsome 

 house at Newmarket, which was occupied by the 

 Bradleys, dealt a decisive blow to the Chifney 

 fortunes; and in the June of 1834, their stud was 

 brought to the hammer. The elegant Rowton passed 

 into Jem Eland's hands at loco guineas, and 

 Shillelah's dam and Emiliana at 320 guineas each ; 

 while the Marquis of Westminster bought a Whisker 

 filly at 260 guineas, the same price as was given by 

 Lord Darlington for a Sam mare. An Emilianus 

 colt also went to Raby, and a Sam gelding was bought 

 in. But once more were the colours of the family 

 seen at Epsom, where they were sported by Frank 

 Butler in his maiden mount for the Derby, on The 

 Athenian, in 1836. Frank's luck on that occasion 

 very faintly foreshadowed the two St. Legers, two 

 Derbies, and six Oaks which were in store for him, as 

 his sadly wayward colt, after causing an infinity of 

 false starts, was left behind at the post. 



After 1834, Sam ceased to go North altogether, 

 and what little riding he had from that date, was con- 

 fined to Newmarket, Ascot, and Epsom. He whipped- 

 in for the Derby on Lord Chesterfield's Critic in 1837, 



