Childers, a dark bay racehorse held by a groom, with a horse and rider and jockey beside him, in an extensive landscape.

The racehorse depicted is believed to be Lord Chedworth's Childers, commonly called Grey Childers, foaled in 1726, by the Duke of Devonshire's Childers, out of a grey mare by Sir M. Wharton's Commoner. The Duke of Devonshire's Childers, who became known as Flying Childers, was described as 'the fleetest horse that ever ran at Newmarket', and was perhaps the greatest of the early champions.