WINNING SEQUENCES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 250, 19 September 1940, Page 6

WINNING SEQUENCES.

EIGHTEEN GAINED BY AJAX. , (By “Spectator.”) The approuch of Ajax lo fourth place on the fist of Australian stake winners, less than £4OOO behind Gloaming, recalls that this groat Australian horse once came near to Gloaming's winning sequence of 19 racos, a series •of successive wins which Desert Gold had also compiled. Ajax compiled a figure of 18 over his three and four-year racing. The figure of Desert Gold and Gloaming slili stands as tho best. Plinr Lap’s best sequence was 14, and another sequence bo put up was one of eight. Carbine, who was only once in bis great career out of a place, put up an unbroken chain of 15 wins as a four and five-year-old, including flic Melbourne and Sydney Cups. But for an unlucky defeat at the start of bis three-year old career Defaulter would also have presented a formidable sequence before bis retirement. It appears that tho most phenomenal sequence of wins established by any thoroughbred was that of the Hungarian marc Kinesem. She was raced all over Europo, her career extending from 1876 to 1879, and was never beaten. She competed in and won 54 races, one of these being'the Goodwood Cup, on her only appearance in England. Like Carbine, Ajax has only once been out of a place. Ilia record is 43 starts for 35 wins, five seconds and two thirds. Ilia unplaced performance was in his third race, in the Sires’ Produce Stakes at Flcminglon, Alien lie hung off tho course. Carbine had 33 wins, six seconds and three thirds in 43 races, but won only £29,626. Ajax will have a good chance of passing Gloaming's total, this spring, but will not bo able to pass Pbar Lap (£66,738; and Amounis (£48,297 10s), who bead the list.