SYDNEY HORSE SALES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 102, 2 May 1911, Page 2

SYDNEY HORSE SALES.

ENORMOUS DEMAiSTD FOR BLOODS. 751 LOTS REALISE £108,500. The sales of thoroughbred horses, which have long been associated with the A.J.C. races and Royal Show, concluded at Sydney last week. They had occupied five whole days, during which 751 animals of all ages, descriptions, sexes, and colour changed hands. Nothing could better illustrate the growth of the horse industry here than that such a length of time should be necessary to offer the animals that were ready to bid for other owners (comments' the Sydney Daily Telegraph). Every stud of note in the State was represented, so was every known, strain of prized blood, and to give extra, interest to the proceedings some New Zealand horses were in the list. Buyers were an the ringside from all the States and New. Zealand. The A.J.C. has for some time _ been raising stakes, and where that is so sporting men will always find money to inveat in gallopers of the right stamp. The breeder has no longer any fear that, providing thty are " bred the right way, ' and good-looking, his yearlmgs will be left on his hands. Of the 761 lots which found buyers — many more were offered and passed in —520 were yearlings, and they contributed £84,888 towards the total, tho balance being made up from the sale of stallions, mares, racehorses, etc. Never before were bo many thoroughbred horses sold here, never was so much money invested, and at no proviou3 time was it necessary to occupy five full days in quitting the catalogue. A year ago the Easter blood stock sales xfiXFJErt il i. I r<>uud figure about ±.100,000, which wa« easily a record, and thai it should be so well beateh M °w says much for, the financial stability of the men who aro necessary to keep tho racing business at a high' level. The amount stated does not, however, represent all that those who attended «"> sa«« were prepared to pay. Fully £.15,000 more would have been added to the total had all tho offers been accepted. But owners' reserves had to be respected, and many big bids wero turned away. Towards the excellent results referred to, bo far ac yearlings were concerned, all th© States, New Zealand, and Fiji contributed. Fiji subscribed 374 guineas, Tasmania 385 guineas, and West Australia 335 guineas. They were our worst customers, for New tnnn^ s P°rt*men bought to the extent °L£ 020 .guineas, South Australians paid 2127 guineas, and Queenslanders 6182 i gui^as^ But there was a better client still— Victoria—whose (sportsmen secured 7,2' yearlinga, representing an outlay of <4a,088£ g ui n«aG. Altogether, the visitors arranged to take 164 of the juveniles, from which future champions of the turf are to come. Messrs. J. Kirbv, E. g. D. Clarke, K. 8. M'Leod, S. A. Rawdon, E. A. Connolly, and R. G. Ca*ey went in chiefly for fashionable lots, but when tho supposed gem of all the sales was offered, a half-brother (by Master) to Sylvander, it was the owner of Prince Foote who outstayed the opposition, with a bid of 2100 guineas. But when the miscellaneous lots came under the hammer, the local forces had the field practically to themselves, though Bobadea (who ran up in A.J.C. Derby), Diabolo (winner of Armadale Cup), the Manbyrnong Plate winner Philio, and the four-year-old Loru, who were brought .here for sale, will return to victoria in separate ownership, and a few mares go to Queensland and New Zealand. One result of the sales has been to allow a Queensland owner to bocomo possessed pf that fine galloper; Lady Medallist, whilo the Meesre. Thompson, Rouse Bros., F. M'Donald, V. Reynolds, G. D. Wood, and other stud-masters are enabled to strengthen their studs to tho extent of some particularly fine specimens of the blood mare. Blood stallions were not in much request. New South Wales breeders appear to be well off in that respect.