Don’t Look Now
16×20
Oil on Stretched Canvas

With the Breeder’s Cup World Championships approaching (the first races are next Friday, October 24), I thought I’d get us all in the proper mood with some horse racing paintings.

I love horse racing. The colors. The sounds. The smells (if you’re close enough to the track to actually be able to smell the horses).

The action.

Horse racing is fast and furious. The horses break from the starting gate like an explosion. Races can be won or lost in the first dozen strides, even in the longer races. Or even in the first strides.

And even if you get to the lead first and early, there’s no guarantee you will stay there. You have to watch those horses that close strong, that have a powerful closing kick. It is not at all uncommon for a handful very good and very evenly matched horses to finish within yards of each other. That’s called a blanket finish.

It’s also called a whole lot of fun to watch!

But in a charge like that, if you let your guard down, if you’re not careful, you will suddenly find yourself in a crowd of rush hour traffic that will take your breath away.

And quite possibly cost you the winner’s purse.

Don’t look now! The winner just passed you!

Don’t Look Now is available unframed for $900 or framed for $1,100 to the first buyer. Custom framing is also available upon request.

All of my horse racing art can be seen on my web site by clicking on the links to Horse Racing Art or Michigan Harness Horse Art.

©Copyright 2008 by Carrie Lewis. See original post here.
To learn more about this artist, visit Carrie Lewis’s website.