Title: Hoof Prints over America. The Illustrated Story of the Light-Horse in America.
RACEHORSE DRAWING / PORTRAIT, depicting the racehorse "Battleship", titled and signed below image, on the half-title page.
Author: W. SMITHSON BROADHEAD (BRITISH, 1888-1960)
Pub Date: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First edition.
Hardback, no Dust Jacket, 9" by 12.5", 96 pages
Condition: Very Good - light shelf wear to covers, inside pages unmarked, NOT ex-library.
The National Museum of Racing owns a full-size portrait of Battleship painted by Broadhead in 1955. The present drawing likely dates to that same period. Battleship was sired by Man-of-War, and was winner of the American Grand National in 1934 and the UK Grand National in 1938.