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peared in the Riddlesworth colours at intervals, and 

 won two matches in them on Menahppe in 1840. It 

 was owing also to the express wish of Mr. Thornhill, 

 who was very intimate, and trained with Mr. Gurney, 

 that he rode and won the Ascot Cup on that very 

 peculiar horse St. Francis. In 1843, the season after 

 poor Connolly died, Mr. Thornhill's horses were placed 

 under his charge, both to train and ride. The lot 

 consisted of Extempore, Elixir, Example, Eringo, 

 Elemi, and one or two others ; and were certainly not 

 calculated, in cardsellers' parlance, "to do much for 

 the owner's name," although the blood of Emilius 

 coursed in their veins. This magnificent son of Orville, 

 whom he purchased for Mr. Udney, for 1800 guineas, 

 was quite as dear to Mr. Thornhill as ever Touchstone 

 was to the late Marquis of Westminster. The old 

 horse survived Buckle, who rode him for the Derby, 

 when he made all the running to Tattenham Corner, 

 was headed, and then " came again," nearly seventeen 

 years, and his owner, who left special injunctions that 

 he should never be sold, for nearly four years. He 

 was buried near the ruins of Easby Abbey, at which 

 stud farm he died (within a few months of Mulatto, 

 The Colonel, and The Saddler), leaving Priam, Plenipo, 

 Mango, Euclid, and Oxygen to keep his memory 

 green in the Epsom and Doncaster annals. Of the 

 high-bred " E's" which Sam Chifney had in hand, 

 Extempore, own sister to Euclid, was quite the 

 flower; and the old jockey, who was then not many 

 years short of sixty, donned the sweaters again with 

 no little heart, to take off some I2lbs., in order to ride 

 her for " The One Thousand " in 1843. Nine started, 

 and George Edwards on Spiteful fought it out till the 

 very last stride, when *' The Old Screw " made his 

 effort, and just won a head. It seemed quite like old 

 times again, when he mounted his hack and rode 

 alongside Mr. Thornhill's phaeton to receive his con- 

 gratulations and describe the race. His two last 



