Cummings buys colts
(N.Z. Press Association) SYDNEY. • The leading trainer, Bart Cum- : mings, added another two valuable yearlings to his stables after some enthusiastic bidding i on the second day of the Sum- ■ mer Sales, at Newmarket in ‘ I Sydney. ; Cummings was forced to . $24,000 for a magnificent chestnut | colt by Better Boy from Silkes. < A brother to the A.J.C. Flight 'Stakes winner, Better Gleam, Sand the Melbourne winner. An-. ' satan, the colt purchased by Cummings looked a ready-made ■ racehorse. ; Cummings was one of the 1 keenest buyers during the early j part of the sale, going to $6500 I* for a colt by a first season I < I American stallion. Bold Minstrel,, i i from the Wilkes mare So True.,
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34044, 7 January 1976, Page 8
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