Bronze XIX, Pierre Lenordez 1815/1892, Bronze Horse Race

Period: XIXth century, Bronze in perfect condition
Signed: Signed and titled in the base; Pierre Lenordez, referenced and listed artist, Côte Artprice: up to € 18,000 for group subjects. € 15,000 for stallion Angelo in 2003
Subject: "Kettledrum by Rataplan out of Hybla winner of the Derby 1861"
Dimensions: 30 cm long x 21 cm high x 11 cm deep

Biography:
Pierre LENORDEZ 1815/1892
Sculptor born in Vaast in the 19th century - French School. Professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in the city of Caen, he specialized in the representation of winning horses in major races. He exhibited at the Salon from 1855 to 1877. The Musée d'Avranches has a plaster work by this sculptor The Captain of Astouville leaving for the defense of Mont Saint Michel - Source Bénézit KETTLEDRUM Is an English racehorse, and a pure stallion -blood.
During a career which lasted from August 1860 to September 1861, he ran eight times and won four races. Aged three in 1861, he won the Derby and the Doncaster Cup and finished second in the 2000 Guineas and St Léger races. At the end of the season, it was withdrawn from the farm where it had limited success, and was then exported to Austria-Hungary. Kettledrum was a large and powerful chestnut horse bred at Croft-on-Tees by James Cookson.
At the age of one, it went on sale at Doncaster and was bought for 400 guineas by trainer George Oates on behalf of his boss, Charles Towneley from Towneley Hall in Burnley, Lancashire.
Kettledrum's father, Rataplan, was a first-class racehorse who won 42 races, including the Doncaster Cup and the Cambridgeshire Handicap. He was a confirmed stallion but was even more successful as the father of broodmares, being the mother of mother of the winners of the Derby Cremorne and Kisber. Kettledrum's mother Hybla was an excellent broodmare who had already produced Mincemeat, the 1854 winner at Epsom Oaks.

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