Ajax One Win Behind Desert Gold And Gloaming

Northern Advocate, 17 March 1939, Page 11

Ajax One Win Behind Desert Gold And Gloaming

Ajax's win in the C. M. Lloyd Stakes at Flemington last Saturday was his eighteenth consecutive victory, which leaves his sequence of wins one behind the sequence record jointly hold in the Commonwealth and the Dominion by Desert Gold and Gloaming—two great horses with 19 wins on end to their credit.

One of the Greatest. Ajax has already proved himself by his deeds one of the greatest gallopers the Australian turf has known. It is really unnecessary to add the qualification, up to 11 miles, for ho has not been tested yet above that distance, and the record of neither Desert Gold nor Gloaming loses any Of its glamour when it is mentioned that these horses did not prove themselves stayers such as Phar Lap and Carbine wore. There is really no reason why Ajax should' not win over longer courses when required. especially if he be allowed to follow the pace instead of making It.

Sixteen months ago Ajax was defeated by a short head in the Victoria Derby by Hua. Since then he has not been beaten. The Ajax sequence was started when he was just over three months into his three-year-old career.

Desert Gold began her famous sequence of 19 in the last race she had as a two-year-old, and she carried it to the autumn of her four-year-old career, being unbeaten for two years less only two weeks. Gloaming’s similar sequence was commenced as a four-year-old at Randwick in October and it was not terminated till his sensational defeat in the Islington Plate at Ellerslie as. a six-year-old. nearly 27 months later.

Defaulter's Good Record,

Defaulter had a sequence of seven at the close of his two-year-old career, and, after his unlucky defeat first up this season, he has a present unchecked run of eight more wins, so that he might easily have now been 16 not out. Should Defaulter carry all before him at Easter he will bo on his way to a sequence similar to what Ajax has at the moment. If he and Ajax meet at Easter, one of these idols will, of course, have to make way for the other.