Horseracing Gallery

Not a Word! Personalities at the Derby by The Tout

Not a Word! Everyone know this year's Derby winner. What they may be doing just before the race on June 6. Caricatures of notable personalities of the turf drawn by The Tout for The Tatler magazine. Names include, from left to right, Lord Howard de Walden, "The Black Prince", Dawson Waugh, Lord Durham, the Hon. Tom Egerton, Lord Valentia, Fred Darling, Gordon Richards, Victor Gilpin, The Duke of Norfolk, Mr J. A. Dewar, H.H. The Aga Khan, Steve Donoghue and Brownie Carslake, Fred Fox, Mr Tom Walls, Lord Derby, H. H. The Maharaja of Rajpipla, Cecil Boyd-Rochfort and Major Harold Cayzer, Togo Johnstone and Lord Glanely. Date: 1934

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Mrs Sofer Whitburn, WW1

Clarissa Mary Sofer Whitburn, wife of Lt. Charles W. Sofer Whitburn, the well-known banker, pictured in 1914 when she unfortunately contracted chickenpox when bound to France with the Duchess of Westminster to nurse the wounded. She spent several weeks laid up in Paris recovering. She later became a well-known racehorse breeder. During the Second World War, she joined the W.A.A.F. Date: 1914

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

The Jockey of Artemision

The Jockey of Artemision - a Hellenistic bronze statue of a young boy riding a horse, dated to around 150140 BC. A very rare surviving original bronze statue from Ancient Greece (preserved in a shipwreck off Cape Artemision, in north Euboea in 1926). Date: circa 1929

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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