The Jockey's Prayer – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with The Jockey's Prayer, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
The Jockey's Prayer
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The title points to a quiet moment before the race, when the noise of the crowd gives way to a rider's private preparation. Many jockeys have long kept small rituals before mounting, a mix of nerves, superstition and faith, and that inner world rarely appears in pictures of racing, which usually focus on speed and spectacle. Images like this one reflect an era when horse racing drew large crowds and jockeys were celebrated public figures, and they invite viewers to consider how much of a race is shaped in the minutes before the gate opens.
| Original scan | 8,443 × 6,713 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 03323u |
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