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declared by Pigott and inferentially attested in many 

 ways, and who was also (as many other members 

 of the Jockey Club were) a member of ' Brookes's,' 

 was John Wastell, Esq., of Eisby, near Bury St. 

 Edmunds (but originally of Eaglescliff, Yarm, York- 

 shire), where he died in 1811 at the age of seventy-five. 

 He was a perfect ' Talleyrand of the Turf ' (as appears 

 from what is said about him in the hackneyed 'Keceipt 

 to make a Jockey,' wherein he and his ' advice ' are 

 mentioned among the ' ingredients ') ; and, as for 

 horse-breeding (with which he combined a great deal 

 of horse-racing), it will suffice to say that he bred 

 the famous Conductor (though he ran in Mr. Pratt's 

 name), Ainderby (sold to Lord Bolingbroke and then 

 to Lord Clermont), and Alfred (sold to Lord Boling- 

 broke), all by the famous Matchem from a Snap mare 

 (bred by the Duke of Kingston in 1762 and sold at 

 an early age to Mr. Wastell). He won the Oaks in 

 1802 with Scotia (by Delpini, a wonderful horse that 

 never shed his coat during the last three years of his 

 life, presenting so curious an appearance as to have 

 suggested — it is supposed — to the enterprising show- 

 man a hint for evolving and exhibiting the ingeniously- 

 contrived phenomenon of the ' woolly horse '). Mr. 

 Wastell was, according to credible accounts, one of 

 the happy few who have ' made a good thing ' (as one 

 of ' the talent,' not of ' the ring ') by the Turf and 

 its concomitants (including betting) . He was ' horsily ' 

 connected, too, for a Miss Wastell married the gallant 



