SALE OF TULYAR TO IRELAND

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26967, 17 February 1953, Page 4

SALE OF TULYAR TO IRELAND

MOVE WELCOMED IN BRITAIN (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, February 5. The Aga Khan’s sale of his champion racehorse, Tujyar, to the Irish National Stud for the record sum of £250,000 brought sighs of relief to racing circles in Britain this week. They feared that the best post-war champion of the English turf would be lost to British racing to America, as were three of the Aga Khan’s previous Derby winners, Blenheim, Bahram, and Mahmoud. In fact, the Aga Khan refused a definite offer of £321,000 from a wealthy American syndicate so as to keep the horse in the British Isles for breeding purposes. As a three-year-old last year, Tulyar swept the board with his Derby and King George VI Stakes wins, and amassed a record total of £75,272 for the season. With his earlier windings his total is £76,467, more than £19,000 more than the aggregate of the great Isinglass, which won £57,455 between 1892 and 1895. If Tulyar remains in training he will probably carry the colours of the President of Eire, Mr O. Kelly, in his future engagements. As in the case of the National Stud, where the Queen has the right to lease horses to carry her colours, the President of Eire also races horses leased from the Irish National Stud. The Aga Khan had plans to enter Tulyar in four big races this year, but it is thought unlikely that he will contest all of them. Apart from Tulyar, the highest price given for a horse in Britain is £160,000. A syndicate paid this for Mr F. Myer-, scough’s Irish stallion. The Phoenix, which has so far been a comparative failure at the stud. The 1948 2000 Guineas winner. My Babu, was bought for the same sum. Gay Time, who was second to Tulyar in the Derby and King George Stakes last year, was recently bought by the National Stud for £50,000.