| Some people might have had him down as a mudlark last season, but he showed he wasn't when he won at Cheltenham. |
| In London where I've lived and worked, the real mudlark, the historical one, was a child who lived in the gutter, as it were. |
| Wheeler is a mudlark, an orphan aged about 10, scavenging a living on the banks of the Thames in London. |
| It is a London voice, it is the sound of the mudlark children in the clay flats herding their goats, selling their dung. |
| You wade along in this way step by step, like a mudlark at Portsmouth Hard, hoping gradually to regain the surface. |
| As a lad I slept with the rats, held horses, swept crossings and lived like a mudlark! |
