$26,000 for mare
PA Hamilton Swift Mel lay, a winniog sister to the former file South Island Smart Mellay and Lady Malay, fetched the top price If $26,000 at Dalgety Bloog stock’s weanling and thoroughbred sale in Ham< ilton, last Thursday. A rising ten-year-old, Swift Mellay, by Mellay, from Smartly, by Theseus, was offered in the broodmare section and she carried a positive pregnancy test to Moss Trooper. She was one of several lots put up for sale on account of the Karamii L and Co., Ltd., Cambridge, and purchased by Mr S. J. Taylor, of Cambridge. Other notable sales in the
b.oodmare sale were $12,500 fo* Honeysuckle Rose. $l,OOO for Poker Dotts and SP,OOO for Pheroz Fable. The highest price in the wianling section was $5lOO, wHch Mr and Mrs A. Rithardson, of Cambridge, pail for the chestnut filly by Avon Valley from Golden Smte, by Syntax. This is the sfamly of a number of very ’gooci gallopers, among them Clauiius, Hooker, Langeland, Jalljcastle and ■’> Th?re were numerous iassiigs, the most notable king the $14,000 which was rifusid for the six-year-old shllim Avenger (Wandering Ej?s - Banba), a brother of Balykit and the winner of ; sixiraCes. _________
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