Escape (horse)

Escape, probably painted by John Nost Sartorius, with his jockey Samuel Chifney wearing the racing colors of the Prince of Wales (later George IV)

Escape (c. 1785) was a British thoroughbred racehorse bred by the Prince of Wales, later George IV. According to M. Dorothy George, by his final races in 1791 he was "reputed the best horse on the turf". In 1791 a sanction from the Jockey Club over two races, one lost as favourite and another a day later won at higher odds, resulted in the prince leaving Newmarket, never to return.