Artist’s 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. But here, a solitary horse is shown in its triumphant pose, standing on its hind legs and the forelegs raised in celebration, and all set against a backdrop of geometric quadrants. In the Henry Butcher Art Auction in 2015, a horse painting sold for a premium of RM22,544.