Prior to this Wallinger had made a lusciously detailed 1992 oil
painting of a racehorse under the characteristically multi-meaning title Race, Class, Sex, and a self - portrait as Emily Davison, the suffragette who threw herself in front of the king's horse in 1913.
«He also will give Astorino a
painting done by Tedisco's wife, Mary,
of a
racehorse named Jim Dandy, who in l930, defeated a Triple Crown - winning horse named Gallant Fox by eight lengths at the Travers Stakes in Saratoga.»