Lot 77
A set of King George V's royal racing silks circa 1928, purple jacket with scarlet sleeves, gold bra...
A set of King George V's royal racing silks circa 1928, purple jacket with scarlet sleeves, gold braid, black velvet cap with gold rosette & fringed bow, purple now faded towards a blue tone, mounted, framed & glazed, 91.5 by 71cm., 36 by 28in. These silks were kept at the Hon. Aubrey Hastings's racing stables at Wroughton where the King had a horse in training in 1928. The horse in question was St Sylvestre who had been an average maiden when trained on the flat by Basil Jarvis. He was therefore sent to Wroughton to be schooled for hurdling. Hastings died suddenly and the reins at Wroughton were handed to his assistant Ivor Anthony in 1929. The legendary Brown Jack was trained here.