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never started for a public race before or after (just 

 like Chestnut Middleton, the winner of the Derby in 

 1825). 



Sir J. SHELLEY, Bart., and his son, Mr. J. V. (after- 

 wards Sir J. V.), may be taken together. The former 

 was the sixth Baronet (born most likely in 1771, died 

 in 1852), who commenced racing at a very early age 

 (before he was five-and-twenty), and was confederate 

 first with Mr. Howorth and then with the (fifth) Earl 

 of Jersey, but does not appear upon the list of the 

 Jockey Club until after 1835. He won the Derby 

 in 1811 with Phantom (sire of Chestnut Middleton 

 and Cedric, both winners of the Derby), and in 1824 

 with Cedric (when the field were all ' wheelers ' and no 

 'leaders,' it was said), and the Two Thousand with 

 Antar in 1819 ; and altogether was a great racing 

 celebrity of a racing stock (as we have seen). His 

 son, Mr. (afterwards Sir) J. V. Shelley, better known 

 in connection with politics, Westminster, and the 

 London Bank than with winners of the Derby, was 

 elected a member of the Jockey Club about the same 

 time, apparently, as his father, but retired from it in 

 1862, and died in 1867. 



Sir W. W. WYNN was, of course, the excellent 

 Baronet who died only a few years ago, was familiarly 

 styled ' Sir Watkin,' and sometimes ' the other Prince 

 of Wales,' and was better known for his hounds than 

 for his racehorses, though he was a member of the 

 Jockey Club for about half a century. 



