caption death_place death_date birth_place race birth_date horses image article_title name occupation
will sam chifney jr , will wheatley and jem robinson by wheatley ben marshall -lrb- 1818 -rrb- , jockey , from a study of kingsland , london 1848 cambridgeshire '' '' ' 2,000 guineas -lrb- 1817 , 1823 , 1824 ` -rrb- epsom derby -lrb- 1816 , 1831 -rrb- british classic race wins as jockey : 1786 mameluke leopold , schahriar , spaniel , manfred , marcellus , nicolo , prince will wheatley jockey.jpg will wheatley
 will wheatley jockey
will wheatley

william `` will '' wheatley -lrb- 1786-1848 -rrb- was a british classic winning jockey of the early 19th century .
his father was the 1795 derby-winning jockey , anthony wheatley .
he was , according to the sporting magazine of 1831 , `` one of the best jockeys in england . ''
he was particularly known for creeping up slowly during a race to win unexpectedly .
this was shown to memorable effect in the 1831 derby .
wheatley was booked to ride 50/1 outsider , spaniel , a horse known for only possessing one steady pace .
the race principals ran together in a tactical battle and appeared to have forgotten about wheatley on the unfancied spaniel , who racing at his customary pace , `` came up with perfect ease ... won in a most triumphant style '' .
wheatley 's ride was deemed `` a splendid performance . ''
despite this , spaniel has gone down in history as possibly the worst ever derby winner .
he was also known for having an untainted character , and in spaniel 's derby he had had a # 25 bet at odds of 40/1 on his mount winning , only to cancel it at the last minute , thereby missing out on # 1000 .
wheatley rode the derby winner mameluke in some of his best races -lrb- although not the derby itself -rrb- .
one of his most noted rides was in the `` ever-memorable '' ascot gold cup when he rode mameluke against zinganee , ridden by sam chifney , jr. .
his principal patron was lord lowther .
william wheatley lived up to the 1840s at newmarket where his father and family had settled but died at kingsland , then a small settlement in middlesex but now part of hackney , in february 1848 aged about 62 .
