[2] After this, having won enough to fit his profession around his leisure time, Chapple rarely rode except for Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Amato's owner.
Late in his career, however, he made a significant return to the track ("as fresh as paint"[2]) when winning the 1850 Autumn Double - the Cesarewitch on Mr Payne’s Glauca and the Cambridgeshire on Mr. Gratwicke’s Landgrave.
[2] His reputation was for being quiet, unassuming and thrifty,[3] and he never had substantial sums on a horse, unless he knew it had a lot in hand over its rivals.
[2] He was mentally alert to the end of his life, but after a period of long and gradual physical decline, he died on Thursday, 10 June 1858, leaving an estate of under £8,000.
[2] The Hare and Hounds pub in Chalk Lane, Epsom, was renamed The Amato as a tribute to Chapple's 1838 Derby winner.