Eclipse (45 page)
Authors: Nicholas Clee
Above: Eclipse's long-undervalued sire Marske, painted by Stubbs.
Below:
J. N. Sartorius's Eclipse with Oakley Up, showing the horse's low head carriage while galloping.
Country gentlemen, of the sort that Wildman and O'Kelly were not. Stubbs's touching portrait of Wildman
Stubbs's touching portrait of Wildman and his sons.
The Eclipse Macarony,
a surely ironic title (a macarony was a dandy) for the gross, bearish Dennis O'Kelly.
Above: caricaturists did not hold back from depicting the Prince of Wales and his jockey,
Chifney, as guilty of pulling their horse, Escape.
Below
: Thomas Rowlandson's portrait of members of the Jockey Club, an assembly from which Dennis O'Kelly was excluded.
Dennis O'Kelly's nemesis, Sir Charles Bunbury (a.k.a. the first Dictator of the Turf) with (blue-coated) his trainer, Cox.
Eclipse by George Garrard, who painted the horse at stud, with a stallion's high crest.
Detail from Stubbs's great painting of Hambletonian (Eclipse's grandson) after the horse's gruelling match with Diamond.
Right: a bookmaker and his client at Newmarket, at a time when bets were struck on an ad hoc basis. |
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Below:
in the foreground, two men make a deal over a horse; with his back to us, Dennis O'Kelly instructs (to win or lose?) a jockey.
