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Pyrrhus the First. Winner of the Derby, 1846

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Horses."Pyrrhus the First. Winner of the Derby, 1846". Orig. old coloured steel engraving, ca. 1850. Engraved by E. Hacker after J. F. Herring's Sr. drawing. With title under the picture. 10,5:15 cm (4 1/4 x 6 inch.).

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Herring, John Frederick, Sr.

1850

Horses."Pyrrhus the First. Winner of the Derby, 1846". Orig. old coloured steel engraving, ca. 1850. Engraved by E. Hacker after J. F. Herring's Sr. drawing. With title under the picture. 10,5:15 cm (4 1/4 x 6 inch.).

Price includes the frame (26:32 cm; 10 1/4 x 12 1/2 inch.). - Pyrrhus The First (1843-after 1860) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from April 1846 to 1849 he competed twelve times and won ten races, including one walk-over. In the summer of 1846 he proved himself one of the best British colts of his generation, winning the Epsom Derby.

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