Lot 24
John Frederick Herring Snr. (1795-1865)
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Provenance:
Phillips, London, June 23, 1992, lot 95;
Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 10, 1993, lot 115;
Waddington’s Auctioneers & Appraisers, December 2012, lot 54;
Private Collection, Canada
Literature:
“THE PRINCESS; Winner of the Oaks, 1844. Pedigree,” The Farmer’s Magazine, Nov., 1844, No. 5, Vol. XXI, p. 381, pl. II
Note:
“The Princess, a chestnut filly, was bred by Lord Jersey, in 1841, and is by Slane, out of sister to Cobweb (foaled in 1820), by Phantom, her dam Filagree, by Soothsayer, out of Web [...]
In 1843, then two years old made her debut at Doncaster... In 1844, at Epsom, the Princess, ridden by Butler, won the Oaks, beating Lord Exeter’s Merope.”