Trainer: James Lynch
Jockey: William H. McLachlan
Silks: Black, White Checks, Red Sleeves And Cap
Solomon Green in his time was the best-known and most successful bookmaker in Victoria. He invested heavily in property and horses, acquiring Shipley Park Stud at Warrnambool. In 1907 he and his trainer, Jim Lynch, visited England to buy mares for the stud. The purchases included Tragedy Queen with her black foal at foot, by Persimmon. Green named the foal Comedy King. The colt did not race until he was a 3YO, taking the 1910 Caulfield Futurity at his second start. By winning the 1910 Melbourne Cup, Comedy King became the first ‘imported’ northern-hemisphere horse to win the race, although the British-bred Panic was runner-up in 1865. Comedy King won other big races and went on to become a great Australian sire. Two sons won Melbourne Cups (Artilleryman 1919, King Ingoda 1922), while the popular Shadow King ran in six Melbourne Cups, for two seconds, two thirds, a fourth and a sixth. This was jockey McLachlan’s second of three Melbourne Cup wins.
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