$U5725,000 for brother to State of Kings
A two-year-old brother to the Riccarton Stud stallion, State of Kings, was the highest-priced two-year-old at the recent dispersal sale of Nelson Bunker Hunt. The brother to the champion race mare, Estrapade, fetched $U5725,000, over SUS3OO,OOO more than the next highest-priced two-year-old. The colt is by Vaguely Noble, sire of the great Hunt-owned mare, Dahlia, which was sold to a former aeronautical engineer, Mr Allan Paulson, for SUSI.IM in spite of being eighteen years old and not in foal. Mr Paulson is standing .4”
Dahar and Palace Music at his Brookside Farm in Kentucky during their northern breeding season after both stallions stood a New Zealand season last year. HealsostandsStrawberry Road. The sale, which totalled SUS 46 million, close to the $5O million estimated by the Hunt advisers, had its sad moments. Two mares, Charming Alibi, a 25-year-old and barren, and Margaretha, a 26-year-old and barren, were sold for $17,000 each. Charming Alibi is the dam of Dahlia and Margaretha the dam of the world’s present leading race mare, Triptych. . $
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