Bold Ruler
Photography of horse sports
This photograph features Bold Ruler with an unknown handler.
Bold Ruler, sire of Secretariat, was the country's Three-Year-Old Champion Male and American Horse of the Year in 1957. He was named U.S. Champion Sprint Horse in 1958 and went on to hold the title of leading sire in North America for seven consecutive years (1963-1969) and again in 1973. He was bred by Gladys Mills Phipps and foaled on April 6, 1954 at Claiborne Farm. He would later retire to stud at Claiborne.
Joel Clyne Meadors
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The Tree
Horse racing in art
Peb's caricature/humorist artwork depicts racehorses Mineshaft, Vindication, Sky Mesa, Aldebaran, and Empire Maker under the Eclipse Award “Tree” branches of racehorses Unbridled, Raise a Native, Native Dancer, Pulpit, A.P. Indy, Boldnesian, Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Bold Ruler, Mr. Prospector, and Polynesian.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
Peb FC3774
2006
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Pen and ink with watercolor; 16 x 13 in.
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Through the Pages
Horse racing in art
This work is featured on the cover of the monograph "Through the Pages of the Daily Racing Form" by John McEvoy. The book, published by the Daily Racing Form Press in 1995 to commemorate its first 100 years (1894-1994), was illustrated by Peb.
The legendary Man o’ War is depicted as a warship, and Secretariat appears in the crow’s nest. The boat’s cannons are firing, and the surrounding waves are depicted as horse heads.
Pierre Bellocq, aka Peb
1994
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Pen and ink with watercolor; 24 x 18.25 in.
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