Lemon Drop Kid
- Oil on Canvas
- 32 x 38 in
- Richard Stone Reeves
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Richard Stone Reeves describes Lemon Drop Kid's Woodward Stakes: "The Woodward Stakes was added to the menu of first-rate stakes at Belmont Park in 1954. In the subsequent half-century of the race's prominence, only two horses have combined a vicotry in that autumn event for 3-year-olds and up with earlier victories in Belmont's Furturity for 2-year-olds and the track's signature Belmont Stakes for 3-year-olds. Those two are Affirmed and Lemon Drop Kid.
"This is the type of horse that any artist would love to paint. A big, healthy-looking bay colt, with nearly faultless conformation, he immediately took a perfect stance without coaxing or fussing. He has a lot of his sire, Kingmambo, in him except Lemon Drop Kid is a little taller. The 1999 Belmont Stakes was a thrilling race with this come-from-behind colt just getting up in time to beat Vision and Verse by a head."
- Framed: 39 x 44.75 in
- Collections: KCG 2019, Saratoga 2021, Saratoga 2023