Filly brings $850 at Waikato sale

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33434, 16 January 1974, Page 18

Filly brings $850 at Waikato sale

GVftr Zealand Pres* Association' HAMILTON. A new record price for a yearling sold at Claudelands. a record aggregate, and record average were features of the opening session of the Waikato Yearling Sale at Hamilton yesterday.

A South African trainer. Mr ' F. Rickaby, paid a record $B5OO for tile Taipan 11—Gwynne filly. Tile previous record for the Waikato sale was S6UOO. set 12 [months ago. The Taipan II filly, an attractive brown, is a half-sister to four winners and from the same family as the Brisbane Cup win ner, Irish Whip. She was offered for sale by Mrs C. R Jenkins (Taurangai The stock of Taipan II were guaranteed to attract plenty of attention after the recent outstanding form of his first crop, two of which. Melody Belie and Anaghdown. are among the season’s leading two-year-olds In the North. The second-top price was $BOOO, paid £or a grey filly by another new sire, Kazakstaan, from laro, by Henry’s Choice. The fillv is from the same family as Ark Royal, a good galloper in his time. She fell to the bid of the Hastings trainer. P. Coleman. The Cambridge Bloodstock agent. Mr B. Lee, paid $5400 for a chestnut colt by Gold Sovereign from the Rolled Gold mare. Gold More, offered on account of the Rodmor Stud (Cambridge). A Sydney buyer, Mr R. Wil-

Hams, paid $5OOO for a bay colt by Ribolight from the Massoca mare, Clouds. The colt is a brother to Daryl's Pride, a good winner in Australia, and "as offered by Mrs J Edgar-Jones who is best known as the owner trainer-breeder of the former champion race mare. Sailing Home.

A particularly pleasing feature of the sale was the very few passings, the highest of which was $2750 for a Regalis II— Alomise filly offered by Mrs M E. McCabe (Hamilton), and an Aureate ll—Designation colt offered by Mr O. Bradley (Pio Pio)

With an occasional exception, the yearlings were produced for sale" in first-class ordet. Altogether. 127 of 166 lots offered were sold for $269,800, an average price of $2125. The average price last year was $1537. and for the two previous years, $lll3 and $1360 respectively.