Ajax was a super Australianthoroughbred horse by the great Heroic out of Medmenham at Widden Stud in 1934. He is best remembered for winning 18 races in a row, and then for that fiasco in the 1939Rawson Stakes, when at 40/1 on in a three horse race, he went down to Spear Chief. He won the Memsies Stakes three times and the 1938 Cox plate. The Thoroughbred is a horse breed developed in 18th century England when English mares were bred with imported Arabian stallions to create a distance racer. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
His record was 46 starts for 36 wins, 7 seconds and 2 thirds for prize money of 40,250 pounds. All this justified his inclusion in the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.
The W.S. Cox Plate is a thoroughbred horse race held annually in late October by the Moonee Valley Racing Club in honour of W.S. Cox, the clubs founder. ... Jump to: navigation, search The VATC Caulfield Guineas is a horse race held over 1600m (mile) for 3 year old horses. ...
Dark Horse: A horse whose chances of success are not known, and whose capabilities have not been made the subject of general comment or of wagers.
Also, the margin by which a horse wins or is beaten by the horse in front; this ranges from a short head to 'by a distance' (more than 30 lengths); a 'length' is measured from the horse's nose to the start of its tail.
For example, a horse that is quoted at 4:1 would be odds against, because if it wins a race, the bookmaker or totalisator returns $4 for every dollar a bettor places on that horse, plus his or her original outlay.
That horse, Odysseus advised, was to be left abandoned in the plain, and the Achaean army should burn the tents and sail away to Tenedos (the island off the Troad), so that the Trojans, believing that the invaders were gone, should come to the deserted Achaean camp and find the horse.
When the horse was ready, the Achaeans let the best among them hide inside it, burned their tents, and leaving only Sinon behind, sailed away either to Tenedos or to cape Sigeum where they were to wait for a signal from the same Sinon.
So the horse was brought either to the shrine of Athena, in the heart of the city, or stationed beside the palace of Priam 1.
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