The Ajax Stakes is a Sydney Turf Club

Sydney Turf Club

The Sydney Turf Club was founded in 1943 and is the youngest of Australia's Principal Race Clubs. It was formed following an Act passed by the New South Wales parliament called the Sydney Turf Club Act...

 Group 2

Group races

Group races are the highest standard of Thoroughbred horseraces in Australia. The Australian Pattern Committee recommends to the Australian Racing Board which races shall be designated as Group races...

 Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...

 quality handicap horse race, for horses aged three years old and upwards, over a distance of 1500 metres. It is held annually at Rosehill Racecourse in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 in March. Total prize money for the race is A$150,000.

The race is named for the outstanding Hall of Fame

Australian Racing Hall of Fame

The Australian Racing Hall of Fame is part of the Australian Racing Museum which documents and honours the horseracing legends of Australia. The museum officially opened in 1981 and created the Hall of Fame in 2000....

  horse and 1938 Cox Plate

Cox Plate

The W.S. Cox Plate is an Australian Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne every October by the Moonee Valley Racing Club to honour W.S. Cox, the club's founder. For three-year-olds and over, the race is considered to be the Weight for Age championship of Australasia...

 winner Ajax II.

The winners

• 2011 Cats Pyjamas
• 2010 Brilliant Light
• 2009 Solo Flyer
• 2008 All Silent
• 2007 High Cee
• 2006 Malcolm
• 2005 River To The Sea
• 2004 True Glo
• 2003 Grand Armee
  Grand Armee (horse)
  Grand Armee was a middle distance Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. He was a brown gelding bred by Newhaven Park Stud, New South Wales. Grand Armee was by Hennessy , his dam Tambour won $132,200 and was by Marauding . He was trained by Gai Waterhouse.Grand Armee's biggest win was in the 2003...
  
  
• 2002 Mowerman
• 2001 Galiano
• 2000 Normal Practice
• 1999 Confiscate
• 1998 Confiscate
• 1997 Catalan Opening
• 1996 Catalan Opening
• 1995 Protara's Bay
• 1994 Poetic King
• 1993 Soho Square
• 1992 Alderson
• 1991 From The Planet
• 1990 Windsor's Pal
• 1989 Jondolar
• 1988 Imprimatur
• 1987 Mac's Treasure
• 1986 Sea Pictures
• 1985 Royal Troubador