The Commission

The Silks

Every stable that ever mattered was recognised at a distance before it was recognised by name. The colors came first: a jacket, a cap, a pattern the crowd could read at three furlongs in bad light. A family is a stable of a kind. It has colors too — it has simply never had them drawn.

Choose the jacket, the sleeves, the cap, and one of the classic patterns; name your ground in your own words; date the founding. The house renders them as a Georgian sporting plate, a racing card, or a parlor lithograph — “THE REYES SILKS · FIRST CARRIED 2026” — and sends a proof before anything prints.

Your surnameEvery composed title is screened so it can’t read as a real race, track, or registry.First carriedThe year the colors began — a founding, a first pony, a share taken on.

JacketSleevesCap

The pattern

Pattern colourYour groundIn your own words — a yard, a long field, a stretch of beach at low tide. Never suggested by the house.Dedication

The plate

Whose colors

On these colors

Real racing silks are registered with the turf authorities. These are original decorative colors designed for you by the house — not a registration, and carrying no racing authority — which is exactly what makes them yours. If your family holds registered colors of its own, you may supply them instead.

How it ships

Your plate — free preview

The colors of the house

THE REYES SILKS

first carried 2026

Racing maroon jacket, hoops in card cream, card cream sleeves, racing maroon cap

The Paddock

A styled proof, drawn live as you set the colors. The finished plate is set by hand in the period manner — the silks inked properly, the caption letterspaced — and sent to you for approval before it prints.