"York Races"

by Graham Isom

image size - 12x18 ins / 30x46 cm
paper size - 17x23 ins / 43x58 cms

Edition Info - A Limited Edition Gouttelette

Reproduction of 350 hand-numbered copies, supplied with a certificate signed by the artist.

This painting in Graham Isom’s Racecourses of the United Kingdom series features the beautiful course at York. York was the winner of the Racecourse of the Year award in 2003 and will play host to the Royal Meeting in 2005 whilst Ascot is being redeveloped. The Tote Ebor Festival takes place at York in August and this highlight of the sporting summer includes some of the most impressive and enjoyable flat racing of the year. Specifically, Graham Isom’s painting is a depiction of Mozart’s victory in the Victor Chandler Nunthorpe Stakes at York on August 23rd 2001. Ridden by Mick Kinane, the Aidan O’Brien-trained colt was odds-on for the showpiece race on the final day of the Ebor meeting. He thoroughly lived up to his billing to defeat a field of ten runners over five furlongs and to secure victory by two lengths. Previous winner, Nuclear Debate, was second under Gerard Mosse and Bishops Court, ridden by Kieren Fallon, was third. Mozart’s triumph represented the third leg of a fantastic York treble for Aidan O'Brien's Coolmore team; the Irish yard having also won Wednesday's Ebor with Mediterranean, and the Gimcrack with Rock of Gibraltar.

Watermark does not appear on actual print