Poseidon: Champion Australian Race Horse

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R H Dangar’s Neotsfield Stud in NSW was one to create history with Poseidon, foaled in August 1903, moving on to become the greatest Australian Thoroughbred horses of all time.

Poseidon was from the fifth crop of Positano, out of Jacinth, who was sold for 400 guineas to the Moses brothers as a foal at foot with his dam. However, the Moses brothers had no interest in Poseidon, who later sold him in 1905 to Sir Hugh Denison for 500 guineas, a sale they were sure to regret a year later.

Trained by Isaac Earnshaw, Poseidon had a slow start to his career as a two-year-old with only one win and a third place from six starts. His first win came in his second start with an impressive four-length victory. The next stop was Melbourne, which did not do much for Poseidon’s career at that point. It was back to Sydney, with a third placing in the AJC Nursery Handicap his best. Poseidon was sent out for a spell. However, with Tom Clayton in the saddle, perseverance paid off big time with the trio becoming one of the most successful in Australian horse racing history.

Poseidon’s exemplary career as a three-year-old in the 1906/07 season ended in sharp contrast to his first season with 11 wins and three second places from 14 starts. The trio started with a bang with two wins in minor races, which was the beginning of a glorious year as the stallion continued to blaze the tracks. Racing with older competition in the AJC Metropolitan Handicap, Poseidon finished second to Solution, a New Zealand Thoroughbred. First in a string of wins in Melbourne was the VATC Eclipse Stakes which he won in record time, followed by the Caulfield Cup once again breaking records. Then came the VRC Victoria Derby and the VRC Melbourne Cup.

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There was no looking back when Poseidon returned in the autumn after a spell to bag the VATC St. Helier Stakes, VRC St. Leger Stakes, and the VRC Loch Plate. Poseidon gave way to Dividend in the three mile VRC Champion Stakes, and then moved on to Sydney to win the AJC St. Leger, before losing again to Dividend in the AJC Cumberland Stakes. Poseidon had already accomplished a lot for his connections with £12,000 in prize money as a three-year-old and an impressive 11 wins from 14 starts.

Poseidon started the season as a four-year-old with a third place in the Rawson Stakes. However, the stallion was back to his winning ways in the 12-furlong WFA AJC Spring Stakes at Randwick, beating stable mate Apologue, and then knocking back to third in the AJC Craven Plate. In a warm up to the Caulfield Cup, Poseidon took the WFA VATC Eclipse Stakes, a week before on 16 October 1907. Jockey Tom Clayton rode an amazing race in the Caulfield Cup, staying put for half a mile before breaking clear to make Poseidon the first horse to win consecutive Caulfield Cup. Poseidon obliged punters in the VRC Melbourne Stakes with a fine win over Apologue. Winning the Caulfield Cup added another 10 lb penalty for the Melbourne Cup, where 65 kgs. proved too much for the stallion who ended up in eighth place. A leg injury in 1908 was a minor setback for the trio, who then moved on to Sydney to win three out of four starts. Poseidon finished the season with seven wins, one second place, and two third spots from 12 races.

A leg injury shortened Poseidon’s racing career as a five-year-old, with a fifth place in the RRC Rawson Stakes after which he was retired to stud duties at the ‘Eurmeralla Stud’ at Gulgong, NSW. Undoubtedly, some of the best horses he sired were principal race winners. Poseidon died on 3 February 1930, but his memory lives on with the Listed VRC Poseidon Stakes for three-year-old colts and geldings run in his honour and a rightful place as an inductee in the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2004.

Poseidon’s unbeatable still stands – a record which made Chinese market gardener and punter, Jimmy Poon, a wealthy man, who backed Poseidon in every win, but surprisingly didn’t wager with any bookmaker on any of his defeats.

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We take house painting for granted as a way to decorate our homes and protect substrates like wood, stucco, and adobe against drying, rot, and the elements. This simple product has a long, fascinating history – much too long and fascinating to summarize in just one essay. This article aims to give a servicable outline to history of decorative paint and to provide some perspective on humans’ need to secure and beautify their dwelling places.

Forty thousand years ago, cave dwellers combined various substances with animal fat to make paint, which they used to add pictures and colors to the walls of their crude homes. This of course is The Cave of Lascaux. Red and yellow ochre, hematite, manganese oxide, and charcoal were all employed as color elements. Starting around 3150 B.C., ancient Egyptian painters mixed a base of oil or fat with color elements like ground glass or semiprecious stones, lead, earth, or animal blood. White, black, blue, red, yellow, and green were their hues of choice. At the turn of the 14th century, house painters in England created guilds, which established standards for the profession and kept trade secrets under lock and key. By the 17th century, new practices and technologies were shaking up the world of house paint even more. In this era of reality TV and manufactured celebrities, it can be hard to remember the definition of modesty. For the Pilgrims, who populated the American colonies in the 17th century, modesty meant avoiding all displays of joy, wealth, or vanity. Painting one’s house was considered highly immodest, and even sacrilegious. In 1630, a Charlestown preacher ran afoul of the growing society’s mores by decorating his home’s interior with paint; he was brought up on criminal charges of sacrilege. Even colonial Puritanism, however, failed to silence the demand for house paint. Anonymous authors wrote “cookbooks” that offered recipes for various kinds and colors of paint. One popular process, known as the Dutch method, combined lime and ground oyster shells to make a white wash, to which iron or copper oxide – for red or green color, respectively – could be added. Colonial paint “cooks” also used items from the pantry, including milk, egg whites, coffee, and rice, to turn out their illegal product.

From the 17th century until the 19th, oil and water were the primary bases for paint production. Each held certain colors better than others, and there were differences in cost and durability between them, too. Ceilings and plaster walls generally called for water paints, while joinery demanded oils. Some homeowners wanted walls that looked like wood, marble, or bronze and ceilings that resembled a blue sky with puffy white clouds. Painters of the time routinely fulfilled such requests, which seem fairly eccentric by today’s standards. In 1638, a historic home known as Ham House, located in Surrey, England, was renovated. The multi-step process involved the application of primer, an undercoat or two, and a finishing coat of paint to elaborate paneling and cornices throughout the house. At this point in paint’s evolution, pigment and oil were mixed by hand to make a stiff paste – a practice still employed today. Well-ground pigment tends to disperse almost completely in oil. Before the 18th century, hand-grinding often exposed painters to an excess of white-lead powder, which could bring about lead poisoning. Despite its toxicity, lead paint was popular at the time due to its durability, which remains difficult to equal. Fortunately, painters eventually added air extraction systems to their workshops, thus reducing the health risks of grinding lead-based pigment. Not until 1978 did the U.S. finally ban the sale of lead house paint. Paint production transformed dramatically during the 1700s.

The first American paint mill opened in 1700 in Boston, Mass. In 1718, the Englishman Marshall Smith devised a “Machine or Engine for the Grinding of Colours,” which prompted a sort of arms race with regard to grinding pigment efficiently. In 1741, the English company Emerton and Manby publicized the “Horse-Mills” it used to grind pigment, which allowed it to sell paint at prices its rivals couldn’t match. Owner Elizabeth Emerton bragged: “One Pound of Colour ground in a Horse-Mill will paint twelve Yards of Work, whereas Colour ground any other Way, will not do half that Quantity.” As any steampunk aficionado will tell you, the turn of the 19th century meant the rise of steam power. Paint mills were no exception; at this point in time, most of them ran on steam. Another, more significant improvement also occurred around this time: Nontoxic zinc oxide became a viable base for white pigment, thanks to European ingenuity. (It came to the U.S. in 1855.) By the end of the 1800s, roller mills had started to grind pigment as well as grain, and the guild system that had organized English house painters for centuries became a network of trade unions. Mass production of paint was no longer a pipe dream, and linseed oil, a cheap binding agent that also helped protect wood, made it even easier. It was in the 19th century that decorating a home with paint became the norm rather than an outlier. After all, paint made surfaces washable and, by sealing in wood’s natural oils, kept walls from becoming either too moist or too dry. In 1866, a future titan of the paint business, Sherwin-Williams Paint was born. The company was the first maker of ready-to-use paint; its original product, raw umber in oil, debuted in 1873. Soon after that, cofounder Henry Sherwin developed a resealable tin can. Another current industry heavyweight, Benjamin Moore, began operations in 1883. Twenty-four years later, it added a research department powered by a single, lonely chemist. Since then, Benjamin Moore Paint has contributed a great deal to paint technology, but the company’s color-matching system, unveiled in 1982 and entirely computer-based, is still considered by many to be its most noteworthy achievement. (In the 21st century, paint remains a formidable moneymaker; roughly .9 billion of the stuff was sold in 2006 alone.) Though house paint is most frequently applied to the surfaces of a home, many artists have used it to bring their canvases to life. American painter John Frost, who began his career as an artist in 1919, used house paint to chronicle the history of his hometown, the tiny village of Marblehead, Mass. Picasso and many of his contemporaries used it as well. Even some modern artists, like Pollack admirer Nik Ehm, experiment with house paint as a medium. In the middle of the 20th century, necessity became the mother of invention for the increasingly innovative paint industry. World War II led to a dearth of linseed oil, so chemists combined alcohols and acids to make alkyds, artificial resins that could substitute for natural oil.

Today, most house paint is acrylic, or water-based, although milk paint, popular in the 19th century for its subtle hues, has become the darling of the sustainability movement thanks to its minimal environmental impact. To be specific, milk paint doesn’t contain volatile organic compounds, commonly known as VOCs. Conventional latex paint, on the other hand, does contain them, which makes it potentially hazardous to humans and pets. Extended exposure to VOCs can lead to organ or nerve damage, and some may be carcinogenic. Luckily, many paint companies produce low- or even zero-VOC paints. The term “zero-VOC,” by EPA standards, means that each liter of paint contains fewer than 5 grams of volatile compounds. Other non-VOC options include clay- and water-based paints. If you have allergies and/or chemical sensitivity, Low VOC Paint are a must. In fact, they offer practical advantages no matter what your circumstances, since their lack of strong odor lets you occupy freshly painted rooms relatively soon. Despite its outward simplicity, paint has adjusted over the millennia to conform to our aesthetic, financial, and health needs. That something so basic can allow us to express ourselves so strikingly, and elevate our mood so effectively, is almost a miracle. The next time you open a can of paint, consider how far through time it’s traveled to add a little beauty to your life.

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There is no doubt in that horses are very good companions for a human. There are many stories mentioned in the history book that boast about the bond between man and horses. The presence of horse can be traced back to the 50 million years back. But before one actually owns a horse he/she should keep certain things in mind.

Decide the breed you want

It is extremely important to decide that which breed of horse you want. As each and every bred of horse have different characteristics. In the past, the Quarter Horse, Appaloosas and Paints were thought of for Western riding. Today, these breeds can successfully compete at all levels with the more traditional hunter type horse.

Learn how to ride a horse

It is in fact the most important thing because you buy horses to enjoy riding on them. If you don’t know how to ride it then buying a horse is just like buying a house but not staying in it. So, it is imperative to learn horse riding before you buy one.

How much you want to invest?

The prices of different breed of horses may vary drastically. Thoroughbred for sale or race horses for sale can be a little heavier on your pocket whereas there are other breeds that you can get in quite economical prices.

Monthly expenses

Buying race horses for sale or thoroughbreds for sale is not all. These high performance agile horses have a high upkeep. This is extremely important to asses in prior whether the upkeep of a particular horse is affordable.

Where you’ll keep the horse

Horses are not like any other pets which even stay in your backyard. Everything related to horse ownership is big. According to the experts a minimum grazing recommendation for a full-sized horse is about 1 1/2 acre per animal. If they have less, the pasture gets overgrazed and the horse would need additional hay.

Horse classifieds are the best way to presently. These horse classifieds let you get the perfect horses for yourself. So keep the above things in mind.

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