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Richard Stone Reeves (American, 1919–2005) LEMON DROP KID WITH ECLIPSE AWARD & TROPHY $35,000. – $45,000. Oil on canvas, 32” x 38” Signed $35,000. – 45,000. Provenance: The Collection of Jeanne G. Vance Accompanied by his Eclipse Award for United States Champion Older Male Horse (2000) and his sterling silver trophy for the 2000 Woodward Stakes Lemon Drop Kid was a bay colt foaled in 1996 by Kingmambo out of Charming Lassie, a Seattle Slew mare. William S. Farish and W.S. Kilroy bred the colt and sold him at Keeneland as a yearling for $200,000 through the Lane’s End consignment. He was purchased by Jeanne Vance and put into training with Hall of Fame trainer Scotty Schulhofer. He won two races in the fall of his 2-year-old year — the Belmont Futurity and the Champagne Stakes — both held at Belmont. At 3, Lemon Drop Kid ran unplaced in the Blue Grass Stakes and Kentucky Derby but showed some promise. After he ran third in the Peter Pan, his connections decided he liked the track at Belmont and wanted to try him in the Belmont Stakes. Lemon Drop Kid captured that race by a head after a stretch battle with Vision and Verse. His only other win at 3 came in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga. In his 4-year-old year Lemon Drop Kid matured, winning the Eclipse Award for Champion Older Male in 2000. The award is also sold as part of this lot. That year, he won the Brooklyn and the Suburban handicaps at Belmont Park. He traveled to Saratoga in August, where he captured the Whitney in the rain. After his win in the Whitney, Lemon Drop Kid was entered in the Woodward Stakes at Belmont. Lemon Drop Kid, Behrens, and Skimming arrived at the top of the stretch three across the track. The three battled it out until Skimming tired and it was just Lemon Drop Kid and Behrens dueling neck and neck until Lemon Drop Kid finished a head in front. His jockey, Edgar Prado, was quoted in The Blood-Horse, “I decided to keep him on the outside because I didn’t want to get caught in traffic…I saw Behrens on the inside moving into the far turn, and at the half-mile pole, I asked my horse to move up because I didn’t want Behrens to get away.” Fortunately for Lemon Drop Kid, Behrens didn’t get away. After this race many considered him the obvious choice for champion older male. Lemon Drop Kid was retired to stud after his 4-year-old year and returned to Lane’s End Farm. He has been an incredible success as a stallion, with offspring earning more than $89 million. Richard Stone Reeves describes Lemon Drop Kid’s Woodward Stakes (the trophy is sold as part of this lot): “The Woodward Stakes was added to the menu of first-rate stakes at Belmont Park in 1954. In the subsequent half-century of the race’s prominence, only two horses have combined a victory in that autumn event for 3-year-olds and up with earlier victories in Belmont’s Futurity for 2-year-olds and the track’s signature Belmont Stakes for 3-year-olds. Those two are Affirmed and Lemon Drop Kid. “This is the type of horse that any artist would love to paint. A big, healthy-looking bay colt, with nearly faultless conformation, he immediately took a perfect stance without coaxing or fussing. He has a lot of his sire, Kingmambo, in him except Lemon Drop Kid is a little taller. The 1999 Belmont Stakes was a thrilling race with this come-from-behind colt just getting up in time to beat Vision and Verse by a head.”

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