Claude Duval (opera) Claude Duval (opera) Claude Duval – or Love and Larceny is a comic opera with music by Edward Solomon to a libretto by Henry Pottinger Stephens. The plot is loosely based on supposed events in the life of the seventeenth century highwayman, Claude Duval. The piece was first produced at the Olympic Theatre, London, on 24 August 1881, under the management of Michael Gunn. It ran until the end of October. From January to March 1882, a D'Oyly Carte touring company played the work in the British provinces. Another D'Oyly Carte company played it in New York in March and
Dick Turpin (horse) Poulains), Shafaraz (Prix du Cadran), Ashkalani (Poule d'Essai des Poulains, Prix du Moulin) and Zalaiyka (Poule d'Essai des Pouliches). Dick Turpin was ridden in five of his six races in 2009 by Richard Hughes. He made his racecourse debut in a maiden race over six furlongs at Windsor Racecourse on 8 June in which he started at odds of 3/1 and won "unchallenged" by four and a half lengths from fourteen opponents. On 11 July he was ridden by Pat Dobbs when he followed up in a minor event at Salisbury Racecourse, winning "readily" by six lengths at odds of