Oil on canvas Signed, inscribed, dated ‘85Bred in Kentucky by Leslie Combs II's Spendthrift Farm, Lucky Lucky Lucky raced for Combs and Equites Stable. Trained by D. Wayne Lukas, she retired with six wins from 22 starts and earnings of $847,126. As a 2-year-old, she won the Matron, Alcibiades, and Gardenia stakes, and at 3 she won the Kentucky Oaks, Black-Eyed Susan, and Arlington Oaks. In her 22 starts, Lucky Lucky Lucky either won or placed in 15 stakes-14 of them graded, and seven of them grade 1. Lucky Lucky Lucky, then in foal to Northern Dancer, brought a record price of $3 million at the 1986 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale.Richard Stone Reeves(American, 1919-2005)Quite simply, Reeves is among the very top of American equine portraiture artists, ranking him with such names as Edward Troye, Henry Stull, and Franklin Voss. A direct descendant of 19th-century portrait painter Thomas Sully, Reeves was trained at the Syracuse University School of Fine Art. His commissions included hundreds of the most famous racehorses from around the world.

28 x 36 in