Ming
Dynasty - racehorse - Caulfield
Cup winner
Ming
Dynasty was foaled in 1973 and was by Planet Kingdom out
of the mare Chow Mein (by Chris)
From
76 starts he recorded 17 wins, 12 seconds and 9 thirds
and won $547,425.
His
main wins were in the Caulfield
Cup (1977 and 1980), Australian Cup (twice in 1978
and 1980), 1978 AJC
Metropolitan Hcp, 1978 AJC Queen
Elizabeth Stakes, 1977 VRC Craiglee Stakes (now the
Makybe
Diva Stakes), 1978 Chelmsford
Stakes, 1978 AJC
Craven Plate, 1977 STC Tulloch Stakes, and1976 AJC
Summer
Cup
As
a seven-year-old in 1980 in the Caulfield Cup, starting
at 50-1, the gelding carried 58kg and beat another Melbourne
Cup winner, Hyperno,
and champion Kingston
Town to join an elite group to take two Caulfield
Cups, the others being Rising
Fast (1954-55), Whittier
(1922-25), Uncle Sam (1912-1914), Poseidon (1906-07),
Hymettus (1898-1901) and Paris (1892-1894).
