Gimcrack On Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-lad, and a Jockey

Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath with a Trainer, Stable-lad, and Jockey from 1765 is one of Stubbs's most famous racing paintings, depicting the celebrated grey racehorse that won twenty-seven of his thirty-five starts. The painting documents the support team essential to racing success. Stubbs's equine paintings combine the anatomical precision gained from his seven-year dissection project — published as The Anatomy of the Horse in 1766 — with compositional elegance informed by classical sculptur...

The famous grey racehorse is rendered with characteristic anatomical exactitude, the supporting figures providing social context for the equine star.