In 1874, Carrier-Belleuse was commissioned to create the winner's trophy for the important Jockey Club race at Longchamps. It appears that he reworked an earlier version of the abduction dating from 1871. Janson suggests that the artist's student, Auguste Rodin, may have been very involved in the creation of the original model. Rodin worked in Carrier-Belleuse's atelier from 1864 until 1871 and the treatment of the centaur's musculature and facial expression strongly relate to other works by the artist in the decade after his exit from his mentor's studio (cf. H.W Janson and P. Fusco, pp. 164-166 for further discussion).