HAWK WING
Oil on board, 11 x 15 inches
Portrait of the Group 1 winner and Champion Miler trained by Aiden O'Brien at Ballydoyle. A much hyped horse, he never really lived up to his home reputation but nonetheless was no back-number - he finished second in the 2000 Guineas by a whisker (to stablemate Rock of Gibraltar) and second in the Derby (to stablemate High Chaparral) Although he won the Eclipse Stakes that year his greatest hour came at Newbury as a 4yo when he trounced a top-class field in the Gr1 Lockinge Stakes by 11 lengths.
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