POSEIDON.

NZ Truth, Issue 73, 10 November 1906, Page 2

POSEIDON.

A Unique Record.

Poseidon, the brilliant 3-year-old son of Positano and Jacinth, has a really marvellous /record. He ■ has won the A.J.C. F.lrst Nursery, Tattersali's Welter Handicap, ran second to Solution m the Metropolitan Handicap, won the Hawlcsbury Handicap, A.J.C. and V.R.C. Derbies,. Eclipse. Stakes and Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, To scoop the quadruple—two Derbies and Cups— is a unique performance and it is extremely unlikely that the feat will be repeated for ifl any a decade to come. As is often the; case, where a phenomenon is unearthed, it is a one horse stable ; Mr iI U. R. Robertson 1 ? (who, by t.he way, is. m England, arid did not er/joy 'the glory <of his colt's amazing, series of victories) haying paid 500 guineas for Poseidon m the sale ring and then gone away and left his trainer to do the rest. He did it, and m doing it Ike Earnshaw put the seal on his fame. How the wily old trainer would enjoy the triumph', too. Ike is never so absolutely' hai^py as when he has got something m hand he knows can do the trick and knows that nobody else is m the know.