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of Samuel Chifney, the jockey, although then, 

 as for many years previously, in possession of more 

 than double the income of any two others in the 

 same calling. Those, however, who were ac- 

 quainted with the style in which he lived, " his 

 liveried servants, champagne dinners, and elegant 

 equipages," must have foreseen this end to such 

 boundless and misplaced expenditure. His bank- 

 ruptcy gave rise to a curious question, which was 

 decided in a court of law, and being of some im- 

 portance to trainers, we have given a brief sum- 

 mary of the proceedings. 



On Thursday, the 15th of June, in the Court of 

 Review, Westminster, an issue relative to the 

 bankruptcy of this well-known jockey was tried 

 before a jury, under the following circumstances. 

 About the 6th of April, a fiat of bankruptcy was 

 taken out against Samuel Chifney. Several of the 

 creditors immediately petitioned against it, alleging 

 in their petitions, that he was no trader, and that 

 he neither bought nor sold for profit ; that he was 

 merely a trainer for such gentlemen as employed 

 him, and that, not being, in any legal sense, a dealer 



serve as a warning to writers connected with sporting literature, not 

 lightly to bring such charges against noblemen and gentlemen, 

 guardians of the best interests of the turf; there being ever too many 

 of its enemies in the field to seize upon them with avidity, and use 

 them as the best and readiest weapons to wound our national sports, 

 by impeaching the honour of their best and noblest patrons. 

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