MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1861

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A VICTORIAN SILVER RACE TROPHY
MARK OF JOHN SAMUEL HUNT, LONDON, 1861
On circular foot, with egg-and-dart border, strapwork cartouches and a coat-of-arms, the knopped baluster stem applied with hound heads and supporting a cup with strapwork decoration and two cartouches, one inscribed YORK 1861, the cup with two stag-head handles with swords and horns, the cover surmounted by a figural group of a horse, his jockey and groom, marked on base, cover, jockey, horse and swords, the base inscribed John Samuel Hunt John Hunt Robert Roskell 1st June 1861, with a wood plinth inscribed WON BY WIZARD and STEWARDS C.C. GRENVILLE, ESQUIRE EARL OF STAMFORD & WARRINGTON H. SAVILE, ESQUIRE, together with a book, J.S. Fletcher, The History of the St. Leger Stakes, 1902.
27 in. (67.5 cm.) high; 181 oz. 10 dwt. (5,650 gr.)

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The York Race Cup of 1861, valued at £200 was won by Mr. A. Nichol’s The Wizard, by West Australian and daughter of The Cure. As The Wizard was the only horse to appear at the post for the race, he won as a walk-over. Despite The Wizard’s uncontested win at the York Cup, he was regarded “by a good many competent judges to be the finest race-horse which the century had produced up to his day” (see J. S. Fletcher, The History of the St. Leger Stakes, 1902, p. 321.)

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