BUYING RACING STOCK.
AUSTRALIANS SPEND £98,754
SYDNEY, April 28
Buyers spent' £98,754 on racing stock during the autumn sales which have just concluded. Two hundred and eighty four yearlings brought £80.6G2, 78 racehorses £11,497, GO mares £4OOO, and eight stallions £2695.
On the last day of the sales nine yearlings by The Buzzard brought 6670 guineas, six colts bringing 5550 guineas, and three fillies 1120 guineas. Three horses by the same sire won at Randwiek on Saturday, and experts said that this put hundreds of guineas on the value of The Buzzard stock offered at the sale.
When bidders refused to go beyond 1.900 guineas for his nine-year-old stallion Talking, Mr Alan Cooper, the most colourful figure of the Australian turf, walked away from the auctioneer’s lostrum in disgust. He gave 19,000 guineas for Talking in 1938. Talking is the sire of the Australian Jockey Club Derby winner Main Topic, which was purchased by Mr F. Y. Kelly, of the ICillarney Stud.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 169, 29 April 1943, Page 3
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