Description:Painting depicts Iroquois with his groom Sam Nichols in the deer park. The horse is facing left. Two deer are visible in the left background. There is a pale turquoise/white sky with a fern green/dark green background. There are many trees in the background. Painting depicts the bay stallion Iroquois facing left. Jockey is wearing red silks with black stripes on the arms and a black cap. Three are two other horses in the background.
Notes:Iroquois was a famous thoroughbred race horse at Belle Meade Plantation who stood stud from 1886 until 1899. He was purchased by General William Hicks Jackson for $20,000. In 1892 Iroquois’s stud fee would reach $2500 per breeding appointment, and was allowed 10 appointments that year, thus paying back the fee that Jackson had originally paid for Iroquois. Iroquois was a bay stallion with a small star, a thin stripe on this face and a white coronet band on his left front left. He stood at 16 hands. He was by Leamington out of Maggie BB by Australia. Iroquois was the leading sire in 1892. The stallion was originally owned by Pierre Lorillard. Iroquois became the first American bred horse to win the English Derby in 1881. He also won the St. Leger Stakes, another major European race. Location: Library
