Ajax | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Sire | Flying Fox (GB) |
Grandsire | Orme |
Dam | Amie |
Damsire | Clamart |
Sex | Stallion |
Foaled | 1901 |
Country | France |
Colour | Bay |
Breeder | Edmond Blanc |
Owner | Edmond Blanc |
Trainer | Robert Denman |
Record | 5 starts, 5 wins |
Major wins | |
Prix Noailles (1904) Prix Lupin (1904) Prix du Jockey Club (1904) Grand Prix de Paris (1904) | |
Last updated on 29 January 2011 |
Ajax (1901 – 15 February 1915) was an undefeated FrenchThoroughbredracehorse who won the 1904Prix du Jockey Club andGrand Prix de Paris and was an influentialsire.
Bred and raced byEdmond Blanc, he was byFlying Fox and out of Amie, whose sire Clamart also won the Grand Prix de Paris. Ajax is a brother to Adam, a sire who was exported to theUnited States in 1906 and then in 1908 toAustria.[1]
Ajax was trained byRobert Denman and ridden byjockey,George Stern. In 1904 the three-year-old colt won the two most prestigious races in France, thePrix du Jockey Club[2] and theGrand Prix de Paris[3] before retiring undefeated after five starts.
Atstud, Ajax was an influential stallion[4] who sired Union (his first classic winner and the 3rd dam ofLe Pacha) andTeddy. His daughters produced the undefeated Havresac II, Invershin, Massine and Le Correge.[1] Ajax died on 15 February 1915.[5]
Sire Flying Fox b. 1896 | Orme b. 1889 | Ormonde b. 1883 | Bend Or |
---|---|---|---|
Lily Agnes | |||
Angelica b. 1879 | Galopin* | ||
St.Angela | |||
Vampire br. 1889 | Galopin* br. 1872 | Vedette | |
Flying Duchess | |||
Irony ch. 1881 | Rosebery | ||
Sarcasm | |||
Dam Amie b. 1893 | Clamart ch. 1888 | Saumur | Dollar |
Finlande | |||
Princess Catherine ch. 1876 | Prince Charlie | ||
Catherine | |||
Alice b./br. 1887 | Wellingtonia ch. 1869 | Chattanooga | |
Araucaria | |||
Asta br. 1877 | Cambuslang | ||
Lady Superior |
Note: b. =Bay, br. =Brown, ch. =Chestnut
* Ajax wasinbred 3x4 toGalopin. This means that the stallion appears once in the third generation and once in the fourth generation of his pedigree.