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Pastime, with nine stone six pounds on her 

 back, is considered his chef-cTceuvre. He 

 resides at Stockbridge, in Hampshire, where 

 he has a very large public training estab- 

 lishment, and several race-horses of his 

 own. Samuel Day, his brother, is also a 

 jockey of great ability, and a singularly 

 elegant horseman, with remarkably fine 

 temper; but he has lately declined riding 

 in public. Wheatley is the son of an 

 eminent jockey of that name, who rode 

 for the celebrated O'Kelly, and contem- 

 porary with South and Pratt. He is a fine 

 horseman; and esteemed a dangerous op- 

 ponent in a race, by reason of his tact in 

 creeping up to his horses when little thought 

 on, and winning when least expected : he 

 is likewise a severe punisher when punish- 

 ment is wanted, and has a character free 

 from taint. He has ridden Mameluke in 

 some of his best races, and exhibited a rare 

 specimen of his art in the ever-memorable 

 contest between that fine race-horse and 

 Zinganee, with Chifney on his back, for 

 the Ascot cup, 1829. Ascot Heath never 

 was honoured before by so many good 

 horses, and, alas ! never again by the 



