Building a Future for Horses out of the Past
Industry won The 60th Oaks in 1838, Friday 1st June. This glass print is an exact copy of the painting by John Frederick Herring, the Elder, 1795-1865 the famous horse painter. Industry was owned by the 6th Earl of Chesterfield and trained like Cotherstone by John Scott in Malton, and ridden by (Bill) William Scott.
Read More ...Cothestone was by Touchstone a prolific sire with 343 winners to his name. It was his owner John Bowes second sucess in the Derby. He was called after a village near Durham and has a selection of celebrated cheeses. He was not an impressive yearling, but went on to win the Riddlesworth Stakes, the Column
Read More ...In 1981, Aldaniti had won the Grand National with Bob Champion, a great feat for a man who had been through cancer treatment and a horse who had potentially broken down. The film Champions was made in 1983, with John Hurt, Peter Barkworth, Edward Woodward and incomparable Alison Steadman. In 1982 this was the last
Read More ...In 1848 the Old Watch House and stocks were pulled down and it was proposed that that the town centre should have a clock tower similar to that in Newmarket. Plans were drawn up and in 1850 this design was added to a print of the town centre. So very different from today. This was
Read More ...Guiseppe Garibaldi was born 4th July 1807 in Nice he died June 2nd 1882 in Caprera Italy. His image would have been very popular in the mid 19th century and a good seller for Staffordshire pottery. Garibaldi’s family were fishermen; he became a merchant captain gaining his master’s certificate. Serving in the Navy 1833-34. He
Read More ...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 been rechristened Prix la Haye
Read More ...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 in 1850, which fits in
Read More ...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 in 1901, in Friedrichshof, just
Read More ...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 meeting of the Royal Agricultural
Read More ...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 was the mail coach. You
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