WHYTE'S IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART 26 FEBRUARY 2018

125 LeoWhelan RHA (1892-1956) ORBY, 1910 watercolour and gouache on tinted paper signed and dated lower right 11 by 14.50in. (27.9 by 36.8cm) Provenance: Estate of Judge DesmondWindle At one time “as famous as Arkle”, Orby was the first Irish-trained horse to win the Epsom Derby and to run in the Irish equivalent in 1907. He was owned by Richard Croker (1841-1922), the so-called “Boss” of Tammany Hall in New York. Croker left America in disgust at the election of a reform ticket mayor, taking with him to England his valuable stable of race horses. However, the English Jockey Club refused Croker permission to train his horses at Newmarket, thus he uprooted once more and settled in his native Ireland, at Glencairn in Cabinteely, Co. Dublin, from where he went on to make horse-racing history. €600-€800 (£430-£570 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid Lot 125