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Bronze Race Horse Dunfermline Jockey Willie Carson Sculpture By Phillip Blacker

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If you're a horse race enthusiast, you won't want to miss out on this contemporary Bronze Race Horse Dunfermline Jockey Willie Carson Sculpture by Phillip Blacker! This fun, first edition piece is perfect for any home, and will add a little bit of racetrack flair to your interior style. Saddle up and gallop into this must-have piece of art!"
Subject Race horse Dunfermline is being ridden by jockey Willie Carson competing in, race.
With a plaque on the side inscribed Dunfermline (W. Carson) Owner: HM The Queen Trainer: W. Hern Winner of the 1977 Oaks & St Ledger Stakes.
Having a sumptuous patina.
A nice impressive size, being 38 cm high and 62 cm in length.
Initial signed on the base P B and dated 02 for 2002 & first editioned numbered 1/9.
Made from fine cast bronze set on a wood base with a green velvet lining underneath.
Origin from England
Provenance from a high-end auction label attached.
Highly desirable and sought after by equine racing collectors.
Ready to display in your home.
Perfect to suit the home interior design theme.
Quite heavy for its size, being 16kg the approximate weight.
A feature that stands out is the beautiful-sculptured detail of the horse & Jockey as they have been captured in the exciting, fascinating moment, which creates the impression of such an expression of graceful, flowing movement.
By the well-known British listed sculptor Phillip Blacker, was born in the year 1949 in the south southwest of England in the Dorset area. After he finished school, he then became a steeplechase jockey. He then rode full time as a professional for the period of 13 years. He rode a great number of many number over, in fact. He entered the Grand national on 9 occasions. He is among a very small group of known jockeys who have been to 3 or more top 4 Grand National race finishes.
It was around this period that his interest in sculptures blossomed. He was taught by Margot Dent, who was an earlier student of John Skeaping. His first 3 editions, which were bronzes that had a Grand National design theme. In the early 1980's, he retired from the saddle to focus on sculptures and sculpture in his studio in the Shires, Oxford shire. He has held numerous exhibitions. His early works focused on expressing the originality and motion of race horses. He has produced a broad variety of subject and practiced a variety of different methods. His dream was to produce a vast scale work and this dream was realized when he was commissioned to produce a full-sized sculpture of Red Rum which was for Restraint Racecourse. He has finished many other life-size bronzes which stand in a variety of different countries, like Canada, Japan, Ireland, France, Australia as well as the UK. His present day works have been to produce Persian Punch & Best Mate for New market Racecourse and a dressage horse for an equestrian center based in Penang, Malaysia. In his exhibitions he has shown to seize the spirit of expression and suspended motion in his animals works.
He is a Member of the Jockey Club, and has sat on various committees, including the British Horse racing Authorities Security and Investigations Committee. Among the 340 races won by Blacker were the: 1981 Welsh Champion Hurdle (Pollards town), 1980 Aintree Hurdle (Pollardstown), 1980 Whit bread Gold Cup (Royal Mail), and two races at the 1979 Chamberlen Festival; the Stayers' Hurdle (Lighter) and the Triumph Hurdle (Pollards town). Blacker is considered as "one of the most important names" in 20th century sporting art by Stella A Walker.
Dunfermline (1974–1989) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. In a career which lasted from July 1976 until August 1978, she ran twelve times and won three races. In 1977, the year of her owner Queen Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee, she won two of the five British Classic Races. Dunfermline won the Oaks against other fillies in June and, in September, added the St Leger, beating double Prax de larch de Trimaphen winner Alleged – the only time Alleged was ever beaten. She raced without winning in 1978 before being retired to stud.
Best known as "Willie", Carson was born in Stirling, Scotland in 1942. He was apprenticed to Captain Gerald Armstrong at his stables at Tupgill, North Yorkshire. His first winner in Britain was Pinker's Pond in a seven-furlong apprentice handicap at Catterick Bridge Racecourse on 19 July 1962. He was British Champion Jockey five times (1972, 1973, 1978, 1980 and 1983), won 17 British Classic races and passed 100 winners in a season 23 times for a total of 3,828 wins, making him the fourth most successful jockey in Great Britain.
Sources Magendie, Matt (23 October 2014). "Saddle to sculpture: Ex-jockey Philip Blacker molds a new career". CNN. "Philip Blacker". Thompson's Galleries. "Our Members". The Jockey Club.
"Security Appointments". The British Horseracing Authority. Stella A. Walker (1989). British sporting art in the twentieth century. Athlete Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-948253-36-2.
Armytage, Marcus (17 October 2011). "Philip Blacker has had a lucky escape". The Daily Telegraph.
Lally, Kate (24 December 2016). "Grand National 2017 will celebrate Red Rum's 40th anniversary". South port Visitor. Hermitage, Marcus. "Philip Blacker, jockey turned artist, launches an exhibition inspired by the 'original' warhorse, Warrior". The Daily Telegraph.
Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
Having charming noticeable patina age wear, scratches, stains commensurate with usage & age.
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Dimensions in centimetres

High (38 cm)
Width of base (16.5 cm)
Length (62 cm)