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  • Crowds of people are watching the horse racing in a large field with marquees in it. Colour process print.
  • A white racing horse has thrown off its jockey and runs off the race track into the forest. Chromolithograph after J. F. Herring sen.
  • Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore, a notorious spendthrift and rake, holding a levee: he is attended by his horse-racing and cock-fighting associates and others. Etching by J. Barlow after S. Collings.
  • Above, a carriage horse baulks and kicks the horse behind; centre, a baulking race horse; below, two race horses with jockeys. Chromolithograph.
  • Above, an arabian horse, a race horse, a draft horse and an ass; below, two zebras. Engraving.
  • Race horses and jockeys leading a race. Coloured lithograph by V.J. Adam after himself, ca. 1850.
  • A jockey riding a race-horse. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A jockey riding a race-horse. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Two men grooming and getting a race horse ready on a race course. Lithograph by E. Purcell after C. Vernet.
  • Six different scenes from a race course, including a horse running off without the jockey, a rider mounting a horse and a dog following a race horse on the track. Coloured line block by V. Geruzez.
  • Singapore: two race-going celebrities talk as a race horse is ridden past them. Pen and ink drawing by J. Taylor, 1881.
  • A race horse with jockey. Engraving by W. B. Scott after A. Cooper.
  • The dance of death: the horse race. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.
  • A coloured servant is standing next to a race horse in a paddock.
  • A winning race horse and jockey are led from the race course. Coloured lithograph attributed to V.J. Adam after himself, ca. 1850.
  • A steeplechase race: Gladstone's horse "Tynecastle" refuses to jump a fence and is led by the horse "Auldhouse". Lithograph, ca. 1880.
  • A nobleman surrounded by bookmakers places bets at a horse-race. Aquatint after H. Dawe, 184-.
  • A fire-engine drawn by horses races through the streets to attend to a fire. Wood engraving.
  • A jockey holding a race horse by its reins. Line engraving by J. Tookey after J. C. Ibbetson.
  • Race horses and jockeys cross the finishing line. Coloured lithograph by V.J. Adam after himself, ca. 1850.
  • The various uses of horses shown in seven sketches: horses in sports, races and for drawing coaches and carts. Chalk lithograph by Turgis after V. J. Adam.
  • The various uses of horses shown in seven sketches: horses in sports, races and for drawing coaches and carts. Chalk lithograph by Turgis after V. J. Adam.
  • Every year over 300 horses are raced to death in the UK : cruelty : you can bet on it / Animal Aid.
  • Every year over 300 horses are raced to death in the UK : cruelty : you can bet on it / Animal Aid.
  • The finishing line at a horse race; ten portrait caricatures, including eight of famous jockeys. Colour lithograph after L. Prosperi, 1888.
  • Six stages of a horse race, including running, training, winning, preparing to start, rubbing down and walking over the course. Coloured lithograph.
  • Race horses and jockeys set off from the starting post at a racecourse. Coloured lithograph by V.J. Adam after himself, ca. 1850.
  • The gentlemen, farmers, jockies, stage-coachmen and carriers universal medicine in the true cordial horse balls and preparation of antimony, adapted for the use and benefit of all, as well the race as cart horse : the cordial balls ... / Samuel Gibson.
  • The gentlemen, farmers, jockies, stage-coachmen and carriers universal medicine in the true cordial horse balls and preparation of antimony, adapted for the use and benefit of all, as well the race as cart horse : the cordial balls ... / Samuel Gibson.
  • A warning against sexually transmitted diseases: in a three-horse race watched by Death, syphilis is about to overtake tuberculosis, while cancer comes third. Colour lithograph by E.-C. Jodelet, 1926.