Auckland sale

Press, 28 March 1979, Page 23

Auckland sale

PA Auckland In contrast to the highly successful National Sales in Christchurch last week, a mixed sale of standardbred stock at Alexandra Park on Monday failed to attract any big buyers and prices paid were very modest. The catalogue presented 116 lots but most were not of a particularly high standard and the auctioneers had to work extra hard to get bids on many of the lots. Fifty-one lots were passed in (16 had been withdrawn) and the 49 remaining were sold for a total of $24,675, an average of only $503.57. The top price of tne sale did not come until the fourth-to-last lot of the day. This was $2OOO

for the maiden four-year-old Full Hand, paid to Mr F. C. Walker, of Cambridge, by Mr B. P. McEwen, of Ngongotaha. The sale, which was conducted by Dalgety Bloodstock, offered a large string of horses on behalf of Avon Downs Stud, Waerenga, and of Mr R. Baker, of Mangere. The best-priced of the Avon Downs lots was SHOO for West Point, a yearling by Country Road out of the Caduceus mare Cadette. The colt was bought by Dalgety’s (Melbourne). Tile most notable passing was $2OOO for the broodmare Madam Court.

Offered by Mr E. J. Watson, of Te Awamutu, the 11-year-old mare, a former North Island Oaks winner and a half-sister to the talented Nandina Leader, had a reserve of $lO,OOO.