76 THE BLUE RIBBON OF THE TURF. 



IV. 



It is now the turn of Samuel Chifne}', junior, to come 

 upon the scene. He and his brother William were 

 taught the whole art of jockeyship by their father, 

 who took infinite pains to instruct them in all the 

 finesse of the business. He trained them by constant 

 exercise on horseback, making them day after day 

 ride all sorts of races in dead earnest, he riding in the 

 contests with all his might, anxious that he should 

 leave his fame to be perpetuated and added to by his 

 sons. The father grounded his son William as a 

 trainer. The ' Druid' has some genial gossip in one of 

 his books with regard to the training of the brothers 

 Chifney by their father whilst he resided at New- 

 market; he tells us that the tuition given was severe, 

 but at the same time affectionate; and while he carefully 

 "■rounded Will in the rudiments of that training lore 

 of which Priam and Zinganee were destined to be 

 such enduring monuments, he gave Sam lesson after 

 lesson in race-riding, from the moment he dared 

 trust him on a pony alone. He used to slip off with 

 him into the stables when he (Sam) was barely three 

 stone, and after putting a racing- saddle on to Kit Karr, 

 Silver, Sober Robin, or Magic, show him by the hour 

 how to sit and hold his reins. Aided by lessons of 

 this nature, and constant practice twice a day in the 

 gallops, Will had already become a very expert 

 horseman ; and while he was with the string at 

 exercise, his father and Sam, one on his Heath hack 

 and the other on a pony, would mark out a three 



