During the earliest days of the Kentucky Derby more than a dozen of the first winning horses were ridden by black jockeys -- many who'd toiled in horse-stalls ... there, a large number of whom ...

These canvases are the central exhibits in Beneath the Surface: George Stubbs & Contemporary Artists, a show that places pictures by Stubbs with studies of the horse by living artists including ...

By Ralph Blumenthal For years there had been skepticism about the large portrait ... he put the portrait on display in his museum, seemingly as much for the horse in the background as for Washington.