Whizgig

Whizgig was a chestnut mare bred by her owner George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton at his stud at Euston Hall in Suffolk.

Her sire, Rubens was a successful racehorse, who at the time of Whizgig's conception was covering mares at Newmarket at a fee of 25 guineas.

[7] On the following afternoon Whizgig ran in a Sweepstakes for fillies over the Rowley Mile course and won at odds of 3/1, beating three others very easily[8] for a 1,200 guinea prize.

[10] A day before Whizgig's success, Grafton, Robson and Buckle had won the first classic of the season when Pastille had become the first filly to defeat the colts in the 2000 Guineas over the same course and distance.

Whizgig went to the front from the start and lead from Pastille until the closing stages when she was overtaken by Mr Wilson's Rubens filly and faded to lose her unbeaten record, finishing unplaced.

Pastille however, was produced by a strong late run by George Edwards to win by a head at odds of 7/2, in what the Sporting Magazine described as, "as good a race as ever seen for the Oaks".

In an edition of the Oatlands Stakes, a handicap race over the Bunbury Mile course, the filly carried a weight of 99 pounds in a field which included colts and older horses.

Ridden by a lightweight jockey named Boggis, she won from the five-year-old Robin Hood, with the 1821 Derby winner Gustavus among the unplaced runners.

[15] At the First Spring meeting two weeks later Whizgig contested a King's Plate for fillies and mares over the three and a half mile Round Course and finished second of the six runners behind the six-year-old Luss.

Her attempt to win a second Oatlands Stakes ended in failure as she finished unplaced carrying a weight of 121 pounds in a race won by a three-year-old colt named Ganymede.