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mode of chaffing each other on the point, was no 

 sHght treat ; and when they were once off, Sam 

 would invariably keep lurching behind so directly in 

 his leader's track, that with all his glances, he could 

 hardly tell on which side the challenge would come, 

 till he found him suddenly at his quarters. The 

 Chifney rush became so famed, and was so dangerous 

 an experiment in the hands of any one who was not a 

 consummate judge of exactly what was left in a horse, 

 that scores of races have been thrown away by a 

 feeble imitation of it. Frank Butler had many a hint 

 and lesson from his uncle, but his style was principally 

 modelled upon Robinson's, and was more neat and 

 less powerful than " uncle Sam's." In his earlier days, 

 he was apt to wait off too long, and not steal up to 

 his leaders till the race became too severe for him 

 to get on to terms with them. Still as a tryer and 

 rider of a racehorse, he had but very few equals ; 

 and he was alike suited whether he was winning 

 a match or lying away on a roarer, a class of horse 

 on which he was pre-eminent. It was one of his 

 especial whims to be last out of the Epsom paddock, 

 and he was equally tenacious on this point " for luck," 

 whether he was on little Daniel O'Rourke or West 

 Australian. 



Frank Buckle weighed in for the last time on 

 November 5th, 1831, and before that time next year, 

 the antique quaintly-carved tomb of '* Samuel Buckle, 

 merchant, Peterborough," which forms such a massive 

 object on the south side of the beautiful churchyard 

 of Long Orton, had received its new tenant. There 

 are scarcely three jockeys in the saddle now, who wit- 

 nessed the energetic set-to of that Pocket Hercules, 

 who had nothing large about him but his heart and 

 his aquiline nose. Sam Chifney, Scott, Pavis, Wheat- 

 ley, Will Arnull, Conolly, Frank Boyce, Nelson, and 

 George Edwards, all of whom rode with him in his last 

 Oaks, are in their graves, and the shade of George 



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