The Emerald Downs Equine Art Show 2011, which sold a record 37 pieces of original art of the 198 pieces featured, concluded Sunday afternoon.

Mike Bryant of La Pine, Ore. received the Stanley A. Gillman Best in Show Award for his art piece titled “Patches,” a wood sculpture shaped into a cream-colored horse head.

Carolyn Adams’s “Luck O’ The Irish” received the Morrie and Joan Alhadeff Purchase Award and will remain on permanent display in the Alhadeff’s collection on the track’s Clubhouse Level.

With more than $5,500 in prize money, a panel of judges awarded prizes to each of the 12 categories. Emerald Downs Vice President Jack Hodge, Bobbi Loudon, and Pepper Schwartz were this year’s judges.

“The show continues to improve in quality every year,” said Kerry Dalton, the show’s co-chairperson. “We also had numerous entries across the US and Canada, plus two entries from France. It is an absolute blessing to be a part of such a marvelous event.”

For the first time at Emerald Downs, Jerry Carmody wasn’t in the winner’s circle to pose for pictures next to his 12-year-old gelding West Seattle Boy. The proud owner of the track’s all-time winningest horse showed off his own talents Sunday winning the Angie Crockett Memorial

People’s Choice Award with his piece “Tracking.” Named the honorary steward for the Equine Art 2011 Purse, Carmody presented Mindy Z. Colton’s horse trophy—”Racehorse Memories”—to the seventh race’s winning connections. Coincidentally, the race finished in a dead-heat between trainer Joe Toye and wife Kari Toye’s Lonely and Free and trainer Robert Meeking and wife Barbara Meeking’s A. Lurie Girl. Both connections received art pieces crafted by Colton.

Equine Art 2011 is presented by the Washington Thoroughbred Foundation in conjunction with Emerald Downs and the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association.