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horse-box with The Drummer emergrinof there- 

 from. The Drummer was a kicky travelHng 

 companion, his van-mates winning the St. Leger 

 in two successive years. This picture was painted 

 for Mango's owner, C. C. Greville, Esq. 



The van, or travelHng horse-box for conveying 

 race-horses from one course to another, was first 

 used by Mr. A. W. Terrett in 1816, when that 

 gentleman had his horse, Sovereign, thus con- 

 veyed from Red Marley, in Worcestershire, to 

 Newmarket to fulfil his engagement in the Two 

 Thousand guineas. Mr. Terrett first made use of 

 a caravan to convey fat bullocks to Smithfield 

 Fat Stock Show, and so well satisfied was he 

 with the result that it occurred to him to try 

 how the system would answer in carrying race- 

 horses long distances by road. After his ex- 

 perience had proved the advantages of the horse 

 caravan, many prominent turfites adopted it, 

 among them the Earl of Lichfield, the Marquis 

 of Exeter, the Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Suffield, 

 Mr. Greville and John Day. 



Cooper also exhibited in 1838 portraits of Airy, 

 winner of the Brighton Stakes of 1837, with litde 

 Will Day up, and Hassan, a grey Arab painted 

 for Henry Thomas Hope, Esq. He painted in- 

 numerable portraits of the famous race-horses of 

 his time and also of hunters. 



