• Title
  St Heliers by an Arab (Satellite) out of an imported mare, [183-], and President, by Emigrant, [184-] [watercolours of two horses]
• Call number
  SV/218
  SV/219
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  183- and 184-
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Watercolours
• Reference code
  971298
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  2 watercolours - 28.4 x 38.1 cm and 27.0 x 33.0 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Henry Dumaresq (1792-1838) arrived in Sydney in 1825 as advance agent for Governor Ralph Darling. Soon after his arrival he showed an interest in horse racing and had success on the track with Alraschid (Arab) and the fillies Modus and Currency Lass by Stride (Imp). In 1831 Dumaresq retired to St Helier's, his Hunter Valley estate. The first important sire to stand at St Helier's was the bay Satellite (Arab). This stallion was imported from Madras, arriving in the colony in 1823 on the ship Satellite. He was at St Helier's from about 1832, and later stood at Camden Park where he died in the 1840s.
  
  About 1833, Dumaresq bred the Anglo-Arab sire St Heliers by Satellite (Arab) out of Silvertail by Warrior. Dumaresq imported the mare Silvertail from England. St Heliers (horse) was sold to the Australian Agricultural Company.
  
  Charles Roberts (1807-1865), a well known racehorse owner and bloodhorse breeder, had a thoroughbred stud Wallgrove, at Prospect in the County of Cumberland. Around 1840 he regularly offered challenges to allcomers to match race his well-known racehorses either at Homebush or the Hawkesbury. An excellent matron in his stud was the Henry Bayly imported British racehorse Lady Emily (1829). About 1840 Roberts bred the thoroughbred President by Emigrant, imported by W. Lawson, out of Lady Emily. President won the two-year old Stakes at Windsor in July 1842.
  
  References:
  Horsemen of the first frontier (1788-1900) and the Serpent's legacy / by Keith R. Binney. Neutral Bay, N.S.W. : Volcanic Productions , [2005].
  The Sydney Morning Herald, 22 August 1846, p. 3, and 5 September 1846, p. 4. Accessed on Trove. http://trove.nla.gov.au/ (accessed 18 May 2012).
• Scope and Content
  SV / 218
  St Heliers by an Arab (Satellite) out of an imported mare, [183-]
  Titled in ink verso.
  Inscription verso detailing bloodline in ink and watercolour, and pencil.
  Portrait of a bay horse with black points, with homestead, possibly St Heliers, in background.
  
  SV / 219
  President, by Emigrant, [184-]
  Titled in pencil at upper left of drawing.
  Inscription verso of a partial bloodline in watercolour, ink and pencil.
  Portrait of a dark brown horse with river and mountains in the background.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Titled from collection.
• General note
  
  Similar portrait of President, 1845, drawn by James Lethbridge Templer held at SV*/Hors/1b.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1069354
• Date note
  
  Dated by cataloguer.
• Subject
  Art, Colonial--New South Wales.
  Horses--Pictorial works.
  Horses--New South Wales.
  
• Topic
  portraits
  watercolours
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE464882

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