Possible Clues:

• Cobbler
• Last person, professionally?
• He has found a job at last
• Willie, who was a winner on the hoof
• Who’s hammered at last — and he a smoker, unfortunately
• Footwear provider
• At last, he gets to work at Oxford, say
• He had the will to ride eight thousand, eight hundred and eighty-three winners
• Willie, who booted home many winners
• A smoker he is a reformed snob