William Scott was a British jockey. He was a brother of the horse trainer John Scott who frequently conditioned horses that he rode.
Portrait of the jockey William Scott, by John Hayes
The Colonel was a British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for running a dead heat in The Derby and winning the St Leger Stakes in 1828. In a racing career which lasted from 1827 until
The Colonel, by Richard Gilson Reeve (1803–1889)
The Colonel is beaten by Cadland in the deciding heat of the 1828 Derby as depicted in an aquatint by James Pollard.
King William IV, who inherited The Colonel in 1830.