Sadly very little is known about this fine steed. His sire, Tracery. mentioned on the card is a bit more visible though and I found out he was born in 1909, in Kentucky, America. Again he fell foul of the Hart-Agnew betting law and was sent to England. He was third in the 1912 Derby and won the St. Leger the same year, becoming the first American bred winner, but he only raced for about a year, participating in nine races, and winning six. He was also the horse brought down during the protest at the Ascot Gold Cup of 1913, where a student with a flag ran on to the track in an echo of the death of Emily Wilding Davison, though, chillingly, this male student carried a revolver.
In 1924, whilst at stud, Tracery contacted colic and died.
Now here we have a photographic representation of his son in motion which clearly shows how, at speed, rather than frozen in time, it could indeed look like all the legs were extended in an outwardly direction.
Our original World Tobacco Issues Index catalogues the set as :
FAMOUS RACEHORSES OF 1926.. Hand-coloured photos. Nd. (48).
A) Small 65 x 34
B) Medium 75 x 50
Both our World Tobacco Issues Indexes have this same description, but the updated version has the A and B variations printed on the same line.
The London Cigarette Card catalogue for 1955 tells us that the small sized card were listed at a shilling a card, or seventy shillings a set, but the medium must have been scarcer, as whilst the odds are two shillings and sixpence each, there is but a line in the sets column, which means no full sets were available.