A lock of Arkle's tail hair, tied with red ribbon & displayed under glass in a small picture frame, ...
A lock of Arkle's tail hair, tied with red ribbon & displayed under glass in a small picture frame, 10cm., 4in. square; sold with two b&w photographs of Arkle privately taken by the present vendor, the first taken when he visited the steeplechaser at Tom Dreaper's yard, the other when he had access to Arkle's racecourse box at Kempton Park on Boxing Day 1966 and portraying the horse rolling in his bedding; the lot offered with a signed letter of provenance from the present vendor who personally received this lock of of Arkle's hair from the gelding's groom at Kempton Park on Boxing Day,1966 (4) appendix The following lot is being sold on behalf of The Racehorse Sanctuary, West Sussex, Registered Charity No.1117361, www.racehorsesanctuary.org.