Horseracing Gallery

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

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West Surrey Staghounds Point-to-point races at Slyfield

West Surrey Staghounds Point-to-point races at Slyfield - the All Comers' Maiden Steeplechase, won by Mr Oliver Dixon on Master Royston. Dixon became one of the best known hunter dealers, with a large dealership in Reading, Berkshire. Date: 1904

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Gordon Richards and his wife at his bungalow in Marlborough

Photograph of the champion jockey, Sir Gordon Richards (5 May 1904 10 November 1986), and his wife, previously Miss Margaret Winckle. He was an English jockey and the British flat racing Champion Jockey 26 times. He is often considered the world's greatest jockey ever and he remains the only flat jockey to have been knighted. The couple married in the spring of 1927 but Richards wanted to keep it a secret until he had ridden his 100th winner that season. The 100th winner came at York, when he won the Convivial Plate on Lord Ellesmere's Tiffin. Date: 1928

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