POSEIDON RETIRES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 993, 18 March 1909, Page 6

POSEIDON RETIRES.

Poseidon has finished his Turf career (says the “Referee”). He retires with a great record, as though he only won one race as a two-year-old, he accounted for eleven out of the fourteen races in which he started as a three-year-old, his victories including the A.J.C. Derby and St. Leger, V.R-C. Derby and St. Leger, and Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. At four years he won seven out of twelve races, the Caulfield Cup (with 9.3) being one of the number. Subsequent to that race he was well backed for the Melbourne Cup, in which he had 10.3, but did not get closer than eighth. He only started once this season, running nowhere in the Rawson Stakes, in which Perkeo beat Mooltan and Virtu, and made an Australasian record for nine furlongs. In all Poseidon won 19 out of 33 races in which he competed. No doubt he will be well patronised at the stud, and a notable fact in connection with his maternal line is that his grand-sire, MartiniHenri, won a Melbourne Derby and Cup, and Chester (sire of lanthe, dam of Jacinth) was similarly successful.