sketcher, is unknown except for his signature on A Race Meeting at Petersham [Sydney] (c.1845, watercolour, Mitchell Library). Horse-races were regularly held outside Sydney throughout the 1840s at the private racecourse of Thomas Shaw, licensee of the Woolpack Inn, Parramatta Road; subscribers paid from 2s 6d to 1 guinea for the privilege of attending. Scott’s painting shows the view of the course from the grandstand (the guinea seats) with the horses approaching the winning post. The jockeys wear silks as the regulations required 'all the riders to appear in Jockey Costume’.
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- Date written:
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