This is at St. James Farm Forest Preserve, which is on my route to work. The farm was owned by the McCormick family (of International Harvester) who were horseback riding enthusiasts. The last surviving family member to live on the property (Brooks McCormick) transferred it to DuPage County in 2000. "This life-size bronze sculpture of Stanhope Joel’s 1945 St. Leger Stakes champion is a reproduction of a piece by British artist John R. Skeaping. Skeaping worked for nine months to complete the piece from photographs and his understanding of horse physiology. Brooks McCormick commissioned a second pouring of the sculpture in 1966 to place near his home." St. James Farm is a lovely place all the year round. It was certainly pretty on a sunny fall day!
September 2015 - I dropped my Nikon L22 at the arboretum (on asphalt!) and it's definitely broken. :(
October 2014- finally reached 365 photographs and it...
A beautiful capture of this great statue of that beautiful horse