Description:General Harding is a single chestnut stallion with star, stripe, snip and a right front sock, standing in left profile in a field. The horse is mounted by a jockey wearing blue and gold striped silks; the horse also has a blue and gold striped brow band. The sky is gray, and the foreground is pale green with trees in the background off to the right.
History:Frame is a giltwood and gesso molding with brass horseshoe attached to upper molding and inscribed, “Jackson Stakes/Alexander Stakes/Runnymede Stakes/Herald-Stakes/Sensation Stakes/Criterion Stakes/Flash Stakes/Nursery Stakes/Calumet Stakes.” The painting of General Harding is a copy of a Henry Stull original by Stewart Treviranus in 1956. The original was done in 1883.
