1835 THE COMMONERS 233 



Essex, introduced to him certain brood-mares, and 

 matched their future produce for large sums of money 

 against the produce to be brought to the post by such 

 astute breeders and judges as ' Old Q.,' the first Earl 

 Grosvenor, and perhaps even ' Louse ' Pigott himself. 

 To his own lack of knowledge and judgment (as he 

 himself seems to have suspected and to have confessed 

 at last), rather than to the villainy which ' Louse ' Pigott 

 has hinted at, Mr. Jennings seems to have owed his 

 ruin (so far as the Turf was concerned) ; for the pro- 

 duce of Chillaby (the sire that he stuck to through 

 thick and thin), when they came to be sold under the 

 hammer, are said to have realised about a guinea and 

 a half apiece. That they were not all quite worthless, 

 however, is proved by the case of Mr. T. Douglas's 

 Emetic (by Chillaby), winner of several races in 

 1780-82, including the 1,200 guineas Subscription 

 at Newmarket. Mr. Jennings, nevertheless, had some 

 considerable successes with animals of whose existence 

 Chillaby was perfectly innocent. Chillaby's madness 

 was such, it is said, that he would rush at ' scare- 

 crows ' in a field and tear them limb from limb, under 

 the impression that they were live men. He came at 

 last into the hands of a Mr. Hughes, who kept a circus 

 in St. George's Fields, and who, having tamed the 

 horse to some noticeable extent, exhibited him to a 

 gaping public. It was during this period that an 

 incident occurred illustrative of the dread in which 

 1 The mad Arabian ' was held. In the absence of 



