TODAY at Lynes & Lynes auction held at Eastlink Business Park, Carrigtwohill, Co Cork. one of the lots could be of interest to readers. Lot 220 is a large oil painting (7’9” x 3’5”) which hung in the Guinness Bar at the Cashel Palace and by Waldron West (1904-1994) is called Some Characters Seen At Cheltenham on Gold Cup Day 1950. The estimate is between €5,000-€10,000.

The characters l-r are: Peter Payne-Gallwey, (trainer and steward), Phil Bull, (owner and founder of the Timeform rating system), Sir Winston Churchill, Lady Spencer Churchill, Harry Wragg, (owner and jockey), Keith Piggott, (jockey, trainer, father of Lester Piggott), Anne, Duchess of Westminster, (owner of racehorses including Arkle), Frenchie Nicholson, (trainer and founder of jockey school), Princess Elizabeth, Sir Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, (trainer, Sir Henry Cecil’s stepfather), Ian Balding, (trainer), Dorothy Paget, (owner), Sir Noel Murless, (trainer), Charlie Smirke, (jockey), Ann Smirke, (his wife), Dan O’Brien, (trainer and father of Vincent O’Brien), Barry Fitzgerald, (actor), Arthur Shields (actor - brother of Barry Fitzgerald), J.P. Donleavy, (Irish-American author or possibly his father Pat Donleavy), Prince Monalulu (famous tipster), Princess Monalulu, Pat Gray, (Tipperary farmer and racegoer), Annie Hickman (wife of Pat Gray), Grania Cazenove (owner of a Tipperary stud farm), Waldron West, (the artist disguised as a policeman, Herbert Blagrave (trainer) and Mrs Blagrave.