COMEDY KING

Comedy King was the first Northern Hemisphere bred horse to win the Melbourne Cup. He won the 1910 edition known as the Jubilee Cup, celebrating the reign of King George V. The crowd exceeded 100,000 and, for the first time, the VRC introduced a “motor paddock” which held around 400 cars. Two firemen were on duty to prevent anyone from smoking in the area among the combination of fuel and expensive upholstery.

Owner Sol Green, the leviathan bookmaker of Melbourne, had purchased his dam Tragedy Queen with a Persimmon foal at foot in England for 1700 guineas. The foal was to later be known as Comedy King. They arrived on the White Star liner, Afric.

Comedy King made his first racetrack appearance in the Standish Handicap at Flemington on New Year’s Day 1910. He was unplaced over 6 furlongs, but only 10 months later