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hundred yards course, under the cover of the fir cKimp 

 on the Warren Hill, and rim twelve or thirteen races 

 during an afternoon. Every phase of finishing was com- 

 pressed into the lesson. Sam would make the running, 

 and then his father would get to his girths, take a pull, 

 and initiate him into the mysteries of a set to. These 

 tactics would then be reversed, and Sam taught to get 

 up and win by a head in the last stride, or to nurse 

 his pony and come in with a tremendous rush — ' the 

 Chifney rush of after-years.' 



Samuel Chifney the younger began the work of his 

 life at Brampton Park, in Herefordshire, where his 

 uncle, Mr. Smallman, was training-groom to the Earl 

 of Oxford. The young jockey — he was only in his 

 thirteenth year Avlien he began to ride in the Earl's 

 colours — soon began to put the precepts of his father 

 into practice, and to play in earnest upon the lessons 

 he received under the fir-clump on Warren Hill. His 

 energy in riding was great, and his success was com- 

 mensurate. He was able to out-jockey men who were 

 far beyond him in years, and ought to have been able 

 to out-jockey him. He played the waiting game ; 

 allowed those who were more eager to ride till tbey 

 were out of breath, and then, when just at the post, 

 pounced upon them with that fearful final 'rush' for 

 which he soon became so famous. The Earl of Oxford 

 was a keen hand at the game of racing, and was fond 

 of training his horses in harness ; in other words, he 

 was a believer in the opinion of an old Yorkshire 

 trainer, who used to say that, ' if horses want to be 

 sweated, you may as well sweat them for the brass,' or, 

 in plain language, run them in all the races they are 



