Major Godfrey Douglas Giles, horse racing caricature.

Major Godfrey Douglas Giles (British, 1857-1923),
CARICATURE OF THE ROYAL JOCKEY HERBERT JONES DANCING WITH MR SOMERVILLE TATTERSALL’S 1922 PORTLAND PLATE WINNING FILLY  ‘TWO STEP’, signed with initials G.D.G. and dated 1922, pen & ink & wash in sepia tones, with speech bubbles containing disapproving remarks from onlooking horses, mounted, framed & glazed, MEASUREMENTS TO COME.

Provenance: Formerly owned by the jockey Herbert Jones, sold at Graham Budd Auctions 2nd November 2004 as lot 544.

The 1922 Portland Plate winner at Doncaster was Two Step, a three-year-old bay filly by the Irish Derby winner Bachelors Double out of Dancing Dora. She was trained at Manton for ‘Sommy’ Tattersall by Alec Taylor Jnr. Earlier in the season Two Step had won the inaugural running of the Nunthorpe Stakes at York after it had been promoted to a Conditions Race, having started life as a seller in 1903. Later in the autumn the filly also won the Challenge Stakes at Newmarket, run over 6f at this time. The royal jockey Herbert Jones was in the saddle on all three occasions and this caricature was formerly in his personal collection.