English gentlemen gambling on an unusual foot race during a horse-racing meet on the Champs de Mars, Paris, 19th century. Stubbs the Yorkshireman is piggybacked on vulgar Cockney grocer John Jorrocks shoulders as they win a 100-yard sprint against the Baron. A crowd of French peasants, soldiers, cheer them on in front of tents. Mr. Jorrocks beats the Baron for speed. Handcoloured steel engraving after an illustration by Henry Thomas Alken from Robert Smith Surtees’ Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities, Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1843.

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