THE TURF. 
distance was four miles, and only one heat ! Mr. Thorn- 
hill is one of the best judges of racing at Newmarket, 
and has one of the largest studs at his seat at Riddles- 
worth, whence the great Riddlesworth stakes takes its 
name. He has won the Derby with Sam and Sailor, 
both sons of Scud, and the Oaks with Shoveler, also a 
daughter of Scud. Previously to Sam's race, this 
shrewd judge pronounced the Derby stakes in his 
pocket; and he also picked out Gulnare as winner 
of the Oaks for the Duke of Richmond, without the 
possibility, as he expressed himself, of losing it, barring 
the accident of a fall. The strange coincidence of his 
winning the Derby with Sailor by Scud, during a 
violent gale of wind, will, perhaps, never be forgotten at 
Epsom. Mr. Thornhill owns JEmilius, the celebrated 
sire of Priam, Oxygen, &c., whose price is forty guineas. 
Colonel Udney's name stood high at Newmarket, but 
he has lately all but retired from the turf. He won the 
Derby with ^Emilius, and the Oaks with Corinne, and 
has had quite his share of "most of the good things 
at Newmarket," as Buckle said, who was the colonel's 
principal jockey. He was once confederate with Mr. 
Payne, uncle to the gentleman of that name now on 
the turf. 
Mr. Lechmere Charlton was on the turf more than 
twenty years, having run third for the Oaks in 1811, 
and has been an owner of several good horses Master 
Henry, perhaps, the best. He has likewise been a 
great breeder of racers, and besides Henry (whom he 
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