Black Arrow: a pair of silver-mounted horse hair trophies, one now lacking the original sample of hair, hallmarked Birmingham 1907, both inscribed B

Black Arrow: a pair of silver-mounted horse hair trophies, one now lacking the original sample of hair, hallmarked Birmingham 1907, both inscribed BLACK ARROW BY COUNT SCHOMBERG DAM BLACK CHERRY, DIED 1907, the underside of each inscribed WITH JOHN COLEMAN'S COMPLTS,, height 7.5cm., 3in.; sold together with an Ogden's 'racehorses' series cigarette card portraying Black Arrow (3) Black Arrow was a brown colt foaled in 1903 by Count Schomberg out of Black Cherry and was a half-brother to Cherry Lass (see lot 52). He was bred at Tully by Col. Hall-Walker and won several races including the Newmarket Two-Year-Old Plate, the Champion Breeder's Foal Plate at Derby; the Coventry Stakes and St James's Palace Stakes at Ascot, the Payne Stakes and the Lingfield Park Plate. Black Arrow was temperamental and developed an intense dislike of the starting gate which cost him many good races.