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perfectly shaped race-horse I ever saw. It was 

 because Crucifix was a daughter of Priam that 

 Lord George purchased her and her dam at 

 Tattersall's, when the latter was twenty-two years 

 old, and Crucifix one of the scraggiest and most 

 unpromising foals ever seen. There can be little 

 doubt that Crucifix, when tried as a yearling in 

 1838, kept Lord George on the Turf at a moment 

 when he thought of leaving it for ever ; and, again, 

 the victory of Crucifix's son, Surplice, for the 

 Derby and St Leger of 1848, confirmed him in his 

 determination to return to the Turf, which he 

 would most assuredly have done probably on a 

 greater scale than ever had his life been spared. 



Some time after the death of Mr Thornhill in 

 1844, Lord George purchased Emilius privately, 

 although the horse was then twenty-four years 

 old, and very weak. Such was the care taken of 

 him by Lord George, that the old horse regained 

 his strength and was as fresh as a four-year-old 

 when leased, in 1846, to Mr R M. Jaques, of Easby 

 Abbey, near Bichmond-on-Swale, on the sale of 

 Lord George's stud. Emilius died in 1847 at the 

 age of twenty-seven. " He was perfectly well," 

 writes " The Druid," in ' Silk and Scarlet,' " until 

 just before his death, which was caused by some 

 one giving him a feed of whole oats, which he was 

 not able to masticate. They buried him near 

 some loose-boxes in a paddock which the Abbot 

 of the White Canons of Easby surveyed of yore 



