Nijinsky and Lester Piggott by Jacqueline Stanhope. COU4 a weary battered HMS Victory

a weary battered HMS Victory enjoys the relative calm as crew from HMS Neptune are despatched to take up the tow from the 3rd rater HMS Polyphemus for the final leg of her journey to the safety of Gibraltar

Signed by Hauptmann Peter Spoden

Limited edition of 30 prints

and the conduct of the pipers in particular roused great enthusiasm

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Nijinsky and Lester Piggott by Jacqueline Stanhope. COU4 a weary battered HMS VictoryJS0540. Nijinsky and Lester Piggott by Jacqueline Stanhope. Owned by Charles W. Engelhard and trained at Ballydoyle in Co. Tipperary by the legendary Vincent O'Brien, Nijinsky was an outstanding racehorse and the winner of the Triple Crown (2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby and St. Leger) in 1970. He was bred by Windfields Farm in Canada and was by the great Northern Dancer out of Flaming Page by Bull Page. He stood his entire career at Claiborne Farm,