page_title: Poseidon (horse)
section_title: Season 1906/07 - three-year-old
hierarchical_section_title: Poseidon (horse) / Racing career / Season 1906/07 - three-year-old
caption_attribution_description: Tom Clayton (Australian Jockey) Cigarette Card (1908)
context_page_description: Poseidon was an Australian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame racehorse. He won 19 races over distances ranging from five furlongs to three miles. Sixteen of these wins were "Principal Races", eight of them now of Group 1 status.
  As a three-year-old in 1906/07, Poseidon had 14 starts for 11 wins, including the Caulfield Cup, Melbourne Cup, Victoria Derby and AJC Derby. In achieving this, Poseidon became the first horse to complete the Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup double. In winning the Caulfield Cup again the following year, he also became the first horse to win consecutive Caulfield Cups.
context_section_description: 14 starts: 11-3-0
  Poseidon had an exemplary career as a three-year-old.
  He began his three-year-old season with wins in two minor races, before winning the AJC Derby by three lengths, ahead of the two favourites. Just two days later, he raced against older competition for the first time in the AJC Metropolitan Handicap, finishing in second place to Solution (NZ).
  Poseidon chalked up a string of wins in Melbourne. First came the VATC Eclipse Stakes in record time, then just two days later the Caulfield Cup in race record time, the VRC Victoria Derby, and finally the VRC Melbourne Cup.
  After a spell over Christmas, Poseidon returned in the autumn and continued on his winning ways with wins in the VATC St Helier Stakes, VRC St Leger Stakes, and the VRC Loch Plate. He then finished second to Dividend in the three mile VRC Champion Stakes, before heading back to Sydney for the Autumn Racing Carnival.
  In his two starts in the autumn, Poseidon won the AJC St Leger, but in his last start as a three-year old, he finished second again to Dividend in the AJC Cumberland Stakes.
  During his three-year-old season, Poseidon won approximately £12,000 in prize money.
caption: Tom Clayton - Poseidon's regular jockey
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