Live Auction 5471Sporting & Wildlife Art
Elie Lambert (b.1949)
Lot 89 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

Elie Lambert (b.1949)

Derby Day, Epsom

Closed9 July 2014

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GBP 6,875

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Elie Lambert (b.1949)
Derby Day, Epsom
signed 'lambert' (lower left) and inscribed 'DERBY DAY EPSOM' (lower right) and further inscribed 'THE DERBY 1978/ WINNER. SHIRLEY HEIGHT [sic.] BY MILL REEF/ TRAINER JOHN DUNLOP AT ARUNDEL/ JOCKEY GREVILLE STARKEY/ BY Elie LAMBERT/ PROP OF DANIELLE BOUT/ "BILL *OPEN THE DOOR AND GREVILLE, THE DEVEL [sic] WENT..... *BILL SHOEMAKER.' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
39¼ x 59 in. (99.7 x 149.9 cm.)

Specialist note

The Derby of 1978 was one of the most exciting races in the event’s history, and was won by Shirley Heights, with Greville Starkey up. Second was Hawaiian Sound, and third Remainder Man.
Out of Mill Reef, Shirley Heights was the finest horse ever produced by the stables of Lord Halifax, and he went on to win the Epsom Derby twice, the Irish Derby, the Royal Lodge Stakes and the Dante.