Building a Future for Horses out of the Past
There would have been 9 plates of which this is No. 9 They celebrate 9 racecourses, and each one with its celebrated race. Each racecourse would have had its favoured race marked on the top left hand side, Auteuil, La Croix de Berny ws first run in 1880, and has
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No not our present one Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, but Victorian ones. This Duke of Cambridge was a grandson of King George lll and cousin to Queen Victoria. He was a professional army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forcesand subsequently Field Marshall. He was entitled Duke of Cambridge
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These were always specific Princes and Princess, Prince Albert and Queen Victoria were the most popular statues. Prince Frederick William of Prussia and Victoria, Princess Royal, born 21st November 1840, were married on the 25th January 1858, at the Chapel Royal in St James’ Palace. She died of breast cancer
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This is a card advertising that Hotspur will serve mares at Allington near Devises. Thoroughbreds £5.5s, Half-Breds, £2.5s Groom’s fee included This celebrated Horse is by Sir Hercules, his dam by Rajah. He contested the Derby with Flying Dutchman in 1819, Beating the best horses of the year; at the
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Jane Austin tells us in Pride and Prejudice, that they returned from Huntsford in Kent, by way of Bromley and from there they took the stage to Epsom where they changed horses at the Spread Eagle. Indeed Coaches left from Epsom to London hourly, and late in the evening there
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People often ask me what is thee purpose of the feathers on a cart horse? The feathers send the rain and mud off down the foot and keep the skin dry. Clipping them off is a sin and should never be done. If you have a cart horse or cob
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Bracy Clark, 7th April, 1771-1860 was the son of a Quaker and came from Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire. He was a fellow of the Linnaean Society, a member of the Institute of France and a friend of Vial de Sainbel. He was a respected veterinary and wrote about 20 papers
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The first edition of this remarkable book was published in 1810. Bracy Clark was a Veterinarian, 1771-1860. He wrote no less than 20 treatise on various disorders of the horse.
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I found this one at Timberley and Shorland’s sale and sadly did not buy it. It is old, around the 1900 I would think is good condition and brown which is unusual.
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All these photographs were taken by Caroine Baldock on Epsom Downs. They have not been photoshoped, or altered in any way from the moment the camera clicked. They sow the fibre sand gallop, the road to Downs house, the grass valley gallop, and the 9 furlong gallop. they are all
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