A 200 Guineas Sweepstake at Newmarket

Details

Manner of John Nost Sartorius
A 200 Guineas Sweepstake at Newmarket
oil on canvas
27 x 42 in. (68.6 x 106.7 cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. Francis Warrington Gillet, Glyndon, Maryland.
The Thomas Mellon Evans Collection until 1998.

Special notice

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Sale room notice

Please note that this lot is illustrated as lot 93 on page 53 of the catalogue.

Lot Essay

This depicts a 200 Guineas Sweepstake run at Newmarket on 3 May 1802 at the First Spring Meeting. It was won by Muly-Moloch, bred by the Earl of Darlington in 1798 by John Bull out of Mistletoe. Muly-Moloch, in addition to winning at Newmarket, won the Pontefract Cup and finished fifth in the Doncaster Cup (won by Alonzo).

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