In Taltersall's Horse Haz.aar nt. Ihe annual Grand National snip. o! trritling mill thoroughbred slock, held in Glirisiehiirdi hist week, n black mare. changed hands twice within an hour. A novice at the game of bidding, a woman in the gallery, found to her surprise that her diflident early hid was the last; the mare was knocked down to her by Mr. Allan Mirtson’s vigorous hammer. When the woman went in search of the former owner of the mare and asked questions about its age and qualities, she found she had bought an aged mare flint, hud nevei been broken to saddle. An hour lifter the woman put the mure buck to auction as the last, entry in the sale ami made a profit of Cl '1 <m the buying prim-.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 280, 21 August 1940, Page 12
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