HISTORY PEDIGREE. 33 



RACE HORSES. JUPITER. 



THE portrait of JUPITER is esteemed by Connoisseurs, a chef d'ouvre of Gilpin, 

 justly celebrated, as one of the greatest horse-painters which this country has pro- 

 duced. He was the master of the present Mr. Garrard, who has attained con- 

 siderable eminence as a painter and modeller. Gilpin's horses were said to exhibit 

 all the accuracy and truth of drawing- which distinguish those of Stubbs, together 

 with a greater share of spirit, and of the semblance of real life. The likenesses, 

 both of the stallion, and the countenance of the mare, were held to be admirable 

 by those who knew both animals ; and it is impossible to view them through the 

 eye of taste, or with the soul of feeling', and not acknowledge, with its warmest 

 glow, the magical and creative powers of the artist's pencil. 



The chesnut horse Jupiter, dead some years since, was bred by the late famous 

 professional Horse-courser, Dennis O' Kelly, Esq. of Clay Hall, Epsom, Surrey, 

 and afterwards of Cannons, Middlesex, in possession of which he died about the 

 year 1799, leaving a considerable fortune acquired upon the Turf to his nephew, 

 the present Colonel O' Kelly, with the condition, as it has been generally understood, 

 that he never engaged in Horse-racing ; which condition, as our convenient laws 

 both make and cut off entails, and as a memento to testators, was afterwards 

 avoided. 



Jupiter was a son of Eclipse out of the Tartar mare, which, by the same horse, 

 also bred Venus, Adonis, and some other runners of inferior note. Jupiter was 

 fifteen hands one inch high, and like most of the sons of Eclipse, of great bone 

 and substance. He had also a considerable, if not a capital share of that speed 

 which characterized the Eclipse blood. Speed ivas his best, to make use of the old 

 Turf phrase, and he had enough of it to enable him to win at Lewes, at three years 

 old, the eight hundred guineas, a mile race, against six others ; and the same 

 year, at Neivmarket, a mile race also, one thousand guineas, beating seven others ; 

 and three hundred guineas, at Newmarket, from the Ditch-in (upwards of a mile 

 and half) beating eight others. He never won a four mile race, or, as it is called, 

 over the course, and broke down in 1779, being five years old, at Newmarket, in 

 the October Meeting, running for the Weights and Scales Plate of eighty guineas, 

 over the B. C. or Beacon Course of four miles. 



No longer able to serve his proprietor upon the course, but the date of his 

 services, in all probability, curtailed by that injudicious severity of training to 

 which our grooms are so infatuated, Jupiter was consequently withdrawn in the 

 following season to the Breeding Stud. Eclipse, his sire, was then in the meridian 



