Altisidora was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for winning the classic St Leger Stakes in 1813. Bred, trained and raced in Yorkshire she won two of her three races as a two-y
Mr. Watt's Altisidora, Winner of the 1813 St. Leger by Clifton Tomson
The Great Subscription Purses were a series of flat horse races in Great Britain run at York Racecourse, usually over a distance of 4 miles, that took place each year in August from 1751 to 1833. Duri
A painting by Benjamin Herring showing Actaeon beating Memnon in the 1826 Great Subscription Purse for four-year-olds