$21,000 top price at sale
PA Hamilton The ten-year-old broodmare, Bighearted. fetchec the top price of $21,000 a! Dalgety’s Bloodstock’s inaugural mixed sale of th-or-ioughbreds in Hamilton I yesterday. Bighearted. by Bettei Honey from Sputnik, anc thus a sister to the former outstanding racemare Beatnik, was sold with a filly foal by Taipan II at foot, and a positive pregnancy test to Ruling. She was one of a numbei of offerings sold in the deplenishing sale on account ol Mr J. D. Foote’s Dee Lodge Stud, Drury, and was purchased by a Waipukurat buyer, Mr T. Hobson. A Matamata breeder, Mr F Brown, paid $18,500 for the well-performed racemare, El Katrina (el Mondo — Kitty’s Wish), offered on account oi L. B. F. Nicholson and G. Lang, of Cambridge. E! Katrina has not raced since returning from a successful campaign in Australia. The winner of nearlj i $42,000 in stakes, she wor [nine races and includet [seconds in the Great North fern Oaks at Ellerslie anc Avondale Championshij:
n; Stakes among her several i worthwhile, placings. *■[ El Katrina was purchased! ! “iby Mr Brown outside the! lt lring after earlier being! passed in on a final bid of! N $17,000. n [ Rose of Erin, the winner [ [of eight races before being! ’’[retired to stud, was pur-1 chased by the Ancroft Stud,' •’.[Matamata. for $BOOO. A 13-j ’■[year-old daughter of Syntax,! > she was offered for sale by g Mrs N. I.etica. of Auckland, y and had a foal at foot by Bahroona and carried a posi- ’’ tive test to Sharivari. '■ A final bid of $ll,OOO was ’■ not enough to secure the :e three-year-old filly Black ’• Heart (Bandmaster II —Col■u ourful) offered for sale by Mr G, C. Clarke, of Taupiri. P Black Heart won her only e totalisator start to date at El Wanganui just a few days s ago. >f Other notable passings 1. were $7750 for Sharanui, by t- Sharivari out of Kwantan, a half-sister to Caruba, and il $6500 for Red Donna, the 1969 Red Jester — Llany donna mare, a close relative n of the former fine three:d; year-old, Llananthony. i-| Altogether, 67 lots sold of id 198 lots offered for a total of pl $169,500.
$21,000 top price at sale
Press, 20 February 1979, Page 24
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