Molly Long-legs with her Jockey

Molly Long-legs with Her Jockey from 1761 by George Stubbs is an early racing portrait depicting a named mare—her evocative name suggesting her distinctively long-legged conformation—with her riding jockey in the Newmarket setting that dominated Stubbs's early equestrian career. The colorful name was typical of the period, when racehorses received individual names that stuck in public consciousness: Stubbs painted Eclipse, Gimcrack, Lustre, and other famous animals with names now preserved only through his paintings. Molly Long-legs was painted in the year before Stubbs was undertaking the anatomical dissections at Lincolnshire that would form the basis of his Anatomy of the Horse (1766), and the precision of equine rendering already demonstrates his developing authority. The work is held at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

The racehorse and jockey are rendered with Stubbs's anatomical exactitude, the mare's individual conformation carefully documented.