SENSELESS was the most successful of grandfather Major George McLaughlin's thoroughbreds that won races at Newmarket. This is the grey's painted photograph signed by Clarence Hailey. Like every Edwardian of good breeding, Senseless had cartes de visite with his portrait, also by Hailey.

His cards gave his pedigree, as shown below, together with the following information:

"SENSELESS (1905) gr. c. (15-2½) by Grey Leg, out of Senses, by Raeburn, is the winner of £5,000 in stakes, including the Victoria Cup, Hurst Park, the Doveridge Handicap, the Nottinghamshire Handicap twice, the July Handicap, Newmarket, the Great Eastern Railway Handicap, and many other races, in some of which he carried top weight. On his dam's side he has the cross of St. Simon blood on the famous Agnes line.

"Will stand at 18 guineas, and 1 guinea groom's fee. Special terms to winners and dams of winners. Three mares taken at the price of two. Will stand at Hill Stud, Gazeley, Newmarket."

Clarence Hailey of Newmarket was one of the preeminent photographers of the day. In 1910, he published Stallions Illustrated, with a preface by The Earl of Coventry. Its two 10½in.x15in. volumes contain 160 portraits with full pedigrees.

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