gimcrack

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The winner may now run in the Flying Childers Stakes at Doncaster's Leger meeting, while Roger Varian, Morawij's trainer, could send his horse to the Gimcrack Stakes at York on 24 August.

From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2012

The portrait of the race horse Gimcrack standing on the grounds of Newmarket Hall was commissioned by an English aristocrat, Frederick St. John, later 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2011

Matthew Paton, from Christie's, said Gimcrack was one of Stubbs's masterpieces and "possibly the greatest horse racing picture that exists".

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2011

"Gimcrack On Newmarket Heath, With A Trainer, A Stable-lad, And A Jockey" depicts one of the most famous and successful horses of the day.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2011

Here, for example, is one-hundred-to-eight offered against Pincushion for the Gimcrack Stakes.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 by Various