26 ashgill; or, the life 



the horse to Lord Chesterfield for £500 less on the 

 evening before, as they had doubts about the straight- 

 forwardness of the intentions of the other people. 

 Zinganee won the Trial Stakes earlier at the meeting, 

 and the seven that opposed him for the Cup were 

 about the best animals in training. There was Mr. 

 Gully's Mameluke, the Derby winner of 1827; the 

 Colonel and Cadland, the dead-heaters for the same 

 race the year after; Green Mantle, the Oaks winner 

 of 1829 ; Lamplighter, Bobadilla, etc. The Chifneys 

 won about £1200 on the race, and took £500 of it at 

 2^ to 1 through Mr. Greville just before starting. 

 This was Zinganee's best performance, as after leaving 

 the Chifneys' stable he lost his form, as he was a 

 dehcately constitutioned horse, and required a lot of 

 understanding. 



"Perhaps the horse of all others that the name 

 of Chifney is most closely identified with was 

 Priam. The brothers took such a fancy to him when 

 he was a yearling, described as the colt by Emilius 

 out of Cressida, and sent up to Newmarket for sale, 

 that they determined to have him at any price. Their 

 fancy cost them 1000 guineas before Mr. Tattersall's 

 hammer fell, a rattling big price, remembering that 

 fashionable yearlings did not fetch the money half a 

 century ago\hat they do at the present time. Martin 

 Starling broke the colt in, and during his young days 

 opinions were greatly divided regarding his merits. 

 Lord Darlington took a violent dislike to him and 

 vowed he would never stay the Derby course ; but Lord 

 Chesterfield declared that he could look at him all day, 

 and that he was 'the only blood horse he had ever 

 seen.' Priam did not run during his two-year-old days, 

 and he made his first appearance in public at the New- 



