CHAP. IV.] G. Payne^s Tttrf 'Career, 119 



squire of tbe old school, who loved to see a thorough- 

 bred mare with a foal at her side wanderiug under the 

 elms which throw their shadows up to one of good Queen 

 Eleanor's most lovely crosses. The colours of one of the 

 partners being all black, and the other all white, it was 

 agreed to mix the two, and hence the black and white 

 stripe so familiar to the race-goer on the back of that 

 excellent jockey ^''Flatman'^ (Nat the ^' incorruptible "). 

 To the same origin may be ascribed the colours of the 

 well-starched, twice- round linen tie, which invariably 

 encircled the neck of Mr. Payne. Except with ^^ Pyrrhus 

 the First^' and " War Eagle,'^ the confederacy of these 

 two Northamptonshire squires was not productive of 

 very great results. The first, however, when the 

 property of Mr. Gully, won the Derby of 184^6, and the 

 second carried off the Doncaster Cup of 1847, having 

 previously nearly won the great Epsom event in the 

 same year. As he ran by the side of his dam in Delaprti 

 Park, so greatly did he win the fancy of Mr. Spencer 

 Lytteltou, that he immediately backed him to win the 

 Derby, for which he was only defeated by a neck. 



At another period of his turf career, Mr. Payne was 

 the confederate of Mr. Charles Greville, Clerk of the 

 Council, an ardent politician, and author of the most 

 interesting ^^ Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Victoria." 

 By a noble lord, whose powers of satire were of no mean 

 order, and who usually wrote with a pen sharply nibbed, 

 Mr. Payne's ally was described in a ^' Society '' poem of 

 the day not only as 



'* Greville of a noble race, 

 With nose as long as Portland Place/' 



but also as the possessor of qualities by no means of an 



