The seven-year-old, trained by Paul Nicholls, was aiming to become the first horse since Badsworth Boy in the 1980s to win the race three years in a row.

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The boy in his rocking horse represents hope for the future and growing up in a square which charts Britain's military past.

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"Boy Leading a Horse" went to MoMA after the death of William S. Paley in 1990, and the Fifth Avenue apartment is now the Manhattan home of French financier Michel David-Weill.

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We never think to ask why a nineteen-year-old boy is so obsessed with a horse, or why the entire production is devoted to an animal, while ten million men are dying all around him.

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