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he challenged, and a most punishing head-and-head 

 struggle, in which the great Newmarket rivals seemed 

 to ride for " Westminster Abbey or Victory," ended 

 in a dead heat. The Chifneys would have been glad 

 to compromise the race, and let the mare walk over ; 

 but the crowd was so great in those primitive days, 

 when Grand Stand enclosures were unknown, that 

 they could not find Sir Mark Wood. It is not likely 

 that the baronet would have fallen in with the offer, 

 as he had taken up some warm notions about a col- 

 lision which had occurred between the pair as Robin- 

 son closed up, and would have it that Sam jostled his 

 mare ; while Sam as stoutly maintained that the mare 

 had swerved on to his horse, and knocked him out of 

 his stride. In the second bout Rowton made the 

 running, Camarine waiting two lengths off; but his 

 leg failed him after he passed the Brick Kilns, and 

 the mare won easily. The produce of the two — or 

 rather the two and Cetus — in 1835, was the chestnut 

 Glenlivat, who was brought to the hammer, when a 

 yearling, after Sir Mark Wood's death. He was so 

 wonderfully handsome and blood-looking that Lord 

 Exeter bid him up to 1000 guineas ; but Lord George 

 Bentinck — who then used Mr. Bowes' name in his 

 nominations — went on with another ten-guinea bid, 

 and secured him. Will Chifney had told Mr. Thorn- 

 hill, who was anxious to bid, that he was not worth a 

 fifty-pound note ; and he turned out to be nearly cor- 

 rect. He contrived, however, when receiving 361bs., 

 to break down Hetman Platoff in the Leamington 

 Stakes, in the same fashion that his dam had eight 

 years before treated his sire. Rowton was also 

 honoured with the smiles of the iioo-guinea Pucelle, 

 when she was in the Duke of Cleveland's stud ; and 

 from their union sprang Virginia, who was in her turn 

 the dam of Virago. 



Zinganee was tried so highly during the spring of 

 1828 that Mr. Thornhill, as well as his owners, stood 



