$110,000 top price

Press, 27 January 1988, Page 38

$110,000 top price

PA Hamilton A $llO,OOO top price, an increase in the average price and an $BB,OOO rise in aggregate were the highlights on the first day of Wrightson Bloodstock’s twenty-second Waikato Yearling Sale which began at Claudelands Showgrounds yesterday. The day’s top-priced yearling was a brown colt by a French-bred Australian stallion, Noalcoholic, from ijie Twig Moss mare, _£ _

Telon Moss. Offered on account of Palmerston North’s Newbury Park Stud, the colt was purchased by leading Sydney trainer Brian Mayfield-Smith, who is on his first visit to the Claudelands yearling sales. Fellow Sydney trainer, Paul Sutherland, was again very active and outlaid $105,000 to secure the second best-priced yearling, a chestnut colt by current boom sire, —

McGinty, from the good Ruling mare, Wyndham. Steady selling saw 174 yearlings change hands of the 252 which were auctioned. However, a high number of lots failed to reach their vendors’ reserves, seventy-eight yearlings were passed in, which represented 31 per cent of the total offering. The aggregate yesterday reached $3,717,000, up 2.4 per cent on the first day last year