Back to the Thyestes, the race is named after a horse who was a 5 and 6 furlong sprinter as a 2yo, won 2 out of 2 and then got injured and didn’t race again. That said, it wasn’t a direct naming, the Thyestes Trophy was awarded to the winner of a young hunter class at Kilkenny Show and the owner presented it as the trophy for the first running of this race in 1954.
