Images Dated 14th February 2014

Another Derby Derby?

Caricatures of well known personalities of the turf caricatured by Mel before the Epsom Derby of 1928. Clockwise from top left - Sir Abe Bailey, owner of Advocate, Lord Dewar, owner of Sunny Trace, the champion jockey Gordon Richards in Lord Glanely's colours, Old Kate, Lord Lonsdale, the trainer Stanley Wootton, W. Jarvis, manager of the royal stables, Major Fetherstonhaugh, the Aga Khan, Lord Astor, the jockeys Joe Childs, Brownie Carslake and M. Beary, Solly Joel and his trainer, Walter Earl. Date: 1928

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