$16,000 paid for weanling

Press, 11 April 1978, Page 20

$16,000 paid for weanling

PA Hamilton A weanling colt by in the Purple fetched the top price of 516.000 at Dalgety Bloodstock’s North Island mixed thoroughbred /sale in Hamilton yesterday. A bay the colt is from Notornis, by Bourbon Prince . from Belle Amber, by Genetout. 'He is thus a three-quarter brother to the former brilliant ' Australian race mare, How Now, . winner of the Caulfield Cup, ' A.J.C. Oaks, and numerous other Jraces. I He was offered in the . i deplenishing sale on behalf of ithe Evergreen Lodge Stud. > Matamata. and sold on account lof Dr L. G. Gillam, of Sydney. J Top price in the yearling secItion was $5OOO, which Mr J. 1 1 McKenzie, of Takanini, paid for the bar colt by Rich Gift from ; ■ Grand Return, a brother to Rich Return, a former brilliant two 1 and three-year-old in New Zea- ; land and subsequently successful ) in the United States. y The Te Rapa trainer. Graham a Rogerson, outlaid $4750 for the 1 useful galloper Sovereign’s .Dream, a placegetter at Avon‘dale last Friday. Rogerson was 3 also the purchaser of Even Craig, which sold for $2600 in the sec-

tion for racehorses. An Auckland breeder, Mr K. C. Burley paid $12,000 for a share in the syndicated stallion. Taipan 11, offered on account of Mr J. D. Foote, of Drury. i A specialh-notable passing was the $30,000 refused for the 1963 brood mare Eagle’s Eyrie, by Bald Eagle from Sharbot, by Pavot She was offered for sale by the Tudor Park Stud at Howick.