Artists over the ages and geographical divides love to paint horses, for the powerful imagery of strength and beauty, grace and power, and freedom and loyalty. The horse embodies the positive values of energy, spirit and speed. Equestrian works in Chinese ink painting are held up by Xu Beihong and Professor Xu Rong, while the Western models include Gericault, George Stubbs and Picasso. Locally, there are John Lee Joo-for and Lim Ah Cheng. For more than 25 years, Ah Cheng has defined his horse paintings particularly those on a large scale of the rumbling of a ‘thousand’ hooves. In the Henry Butcher Art Auction in 2015, a horse painting sold for a premium of RM22,544. Lim Ah Cheng graduated with a diploma in Graphic Design at the Malaysian Institute of Art in 1988-1991, with a simultaneous certificate in communications (storybook design and illustrations) from the Tatsun Studio in 1990-1991. He might have owed his calligraphic-like strokes to the tutelage under Chung Chen Chuan from 1995-1999. He won the Initiative Award in the Galeri Shah Alam Open in 1997, and the 3rd Prize in the National Open in 1998. He has participated in art fairs in England, Singapore and Malaysia. His first solo, of equestrian paintings, was at the now-defunct Elle Six gallery in 2002, and his 10th, was at the Pinkguy Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, called EnCore. He had two solos in Singapore, in 2004 and 2008.