"'SCEPTjRE' WINS!" 



709 



Dioined beside the owner of Rock Sand Sir Charles Bunbury beside Sir James 

 Miller I have endeavoured to indicate, as it were in an allegory, the progression 

 of society on the English Turf from early clays until now, from the first Derby 

 until that of 1903. 



In the collection of paintings which forms the most valuable feature of these 

 volumes, it will be noticed that the portraits of men and women, before about 1880, 

 are usually far more faithful records of individual character than those of the horses. 



From the print after Dighton 

 in possession of H.R.H. 

 I'rincc Christian. 



.Sir Charles Bunbury, 

 i'iniier of the first Derby. 



Sir James Miller, winner 

 of the Derby cf 1903. 



Here and there, of course, a really good artist devoted his attention to the Turf, 

 and in the canvases of Ben Marshall, Barenger, Stubbs, Herring, and a few others, 

 we may perhaps see a real portrait of the animal represented, painted almost as 

 well as those pictures in which Reynolds, Romney, or Gainsborough have im- 

 mortalised the men and women of their day. But the comparison between past 

 and present in the animal is rendered entirely impossible, from a scientific point 

 of view, owing to the complete absence of sufficient scientifically accurate material ; 

 and it is only since the days of instantaneous photography that the biologist has been 



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