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which Sam's first appearance in the Royal purple on 

 the filly at Stockbridge had created. The mould has 

 long since rattled dismally on the coffin-lids of those 

 lords and ladies gay, and our own task as biographers 

 is ended. We began with a little lad of six seated on 

 Kit Karr at Newmarket, and his father, the first horse- 

 man of his day, in the stall at his side, and we have 

 traced that lad's history through many a night of 

 weariness and many a weary day, till he finished his 

 cast like a wreck on the sea-beach of life. All is 

 past now, and the old weather-beaten jockey, after 

 his fitful span of trouble and victory, and leaving the 

 Chifney rush as a proverb to all time, sleeps at last 

 near the spot where in 1804 the seal was first set to 

 his boyish fortunes. Peace to his memory I 



