Irish Medals, WORLD COINS, Irish Medals, Royal Dublin Society, Horse Show, a silver award medal by J. Woodhouse, arms and supporters, rev. horse advancing left, named (Henry Eyre Linde, Brood Mare, Class 2, No. 19, 1888), 54mm (Went 26; Frazer pp.195-6; cf. DNW M5, 1107). Light scuffing, otherwise about extremely fine; an interesting medal to a pioneer in the world of Irish horse racing £80-100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals formed by Major John Crooks.

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Henry Eyre Linde (1835-97), racehorse trainer at Eyrefield Lodge, Curragh, was one of the first of a new breed of educated gentlemen who from the early 1870s would make racehorse training their profession. Linde initially concentrated on jumpers and he constructed the first private steeplechase course in Ireland on fields adjacent to Eyrefield Lodge, before moving to specialise in flat racing. One of his horses won the 1880 Grand National, another won the Paris Grand Steeplechase in 1883 and placed second in the 1886 Grand National; a third won the 1887 Irish Derby in its first race