Records Fall At Adelaide Sales
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ADELAIDE. Records were again broken at the Adelaide yearling sales on Monday. On the opening day last year 140 lots were sold for 151,620 guineas, an average of 1083gns. Those figures were eclipsed this year when 122 yearlings were sold for 167,872gn5, an average of 1376gns. The top price was 5500gns for a chestnut filly by Australian champion sire, Wilkes, from Eucla. This was a record sum for a filly in an Adelaide sale ring, the previous highest having been 4600gns.
The filly was offered on account of R. Concannon, of Noonamah Stud, Echunga, where Pago Pago was bred, and was bought by the South Australian breeders, Hall brothers.
The top price for a colt was 5300gns for a Coronation BoyBavarla colt, a brother of Munich.
The record for South Australia is 6000gns. The colt was bought by the Victorian trainer, A. E. Elkington. 1
There was a big demand for youngsters by the new Lindsay Park sire, Natural Bid, some of them in the 4000gns and over group.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31295, 15 February 1967, Page 4
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