Description
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Engraved by C Hunt after a picture by Sidney R Wombill.
Size 18 x 24 inches (approx 46 x 61 cms.)
Ormonde (1883-1904) was an English Thoroughbred racehorse, an unbeaten Triple Crown winner, generally considered to be one of the greatest racehorses ever.
Ormonde was trained at Kingsclere by John Porter for the 1st Duke of Westminster. As a two-year-old, Ormonde did not race until the end of the season when he won the Post Stakes, the Criterion Stakes and the Dewhurst Stakes in quick succession.
At three he won firstly the 2,000 Guineas, defeating the strongly fancied and previously unbeaten Minting. He went on to beat The Bard (also previously undefeated) in the Epsom Derby and followed up by winning the St. James’s Palace Stakes and the Hardwicke Stakes, both at Ascot Racecourse, and then completed the Triple Crown by winning the Doncaster St. Leger Stakes in a canter
Major wins
Dewhurst Stakes (1885)
2,000 Guineas (1886)
Epsom Derby (1886)
St. Leger Stakes (1886)
St. James’s Palace Stakes (1886)
Champion Stakes (1886)
Hardwicke Stakes (1886 & 1887)
Imperial Gold Cup (1887)
Awards
4th U.K. Triple Crown Champion
