Golden Winning Trotter

Here’s a new slant on one of my old T-shirt screenprint designs featuring my favorite harness racing horse, “Sir Castleton“.  He was a small (14 hands) but brilliantly talented trotter who campaigned in New Zealand and Australia in the 1980’s, from a small stud in Ashburton in the South Island – trained by his owner.

When he bowed out with arthritis in 1985, Sir was New Zealand’s greatest stakes-winning trotter.

He raced in NZ 96 times for 39 wins and 34 placings for earnings of $255,902. He earned an additional $46,250 in two campaigns at the Inter Dominions in Australia giving him a combined total of NZ$302,152.

I watched him race several times at the Cambridge Racecourse, having become friends with his owners who had commissioned me to make artworks of him. This work was developed from a series of photos I took while he was training at the Cambridge Racetrack one morning.

Original silkscreen made by me and now re-created in Vector for digital printing.

There is another version  called “Chariots Of Fire” that features a deliberate nod to the 1981 movie of the same name.

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Patricia

August 24, 2020 | Categories: Animals, Illustration, New Zealand | Tags: beach training, driver, equine, harness racing, horse, horse racing, inter dominion trotting championship, race, races, sir castleton, sport, standard bred, standardbred, sulky, trotter, trotting | Leave a comment