PRICES OF YEARLINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1932, Page 6

PRICES OF YEARLINGS

THIS YEARS PROSPECTS

While the i.ice-going public ii> beginning to weigh up eaily piospects, for the W.R.C. Summer Meeting, breedeis aio wondeimg how their offerings will faie at the sixth national yearling sale, held m the same week. So many factors enter into the subject that it is difficult to prophesy how closely the- ideas ot value of bieedeie and biddeis will approximate the one to the othei, says, the southern wliter "Sundndge." , * '

Prior to'last jeaV, lacing was still being well patronised and thoioughbied values weie on a high plane, Piobably it was a false leveU iv Xast -year's entry was larger than lor the io"ur pieceding sales, but the demands w as." almost, e4ual to the supply, and the"aveiage'o£ piices was more satisfactory than many had hoped. Piospectne bujers lealise, no doubt, that theie are bound to be baigains among the moderately-puced A small outlay may place a champion in the hands of a good judge'and, as it is clanne 1 the'quality of the yearlings this yeai is well up ito that of-recent years.A there is a prospect of there being cheap horses leaving the ring. At the last Januaiy sale, highest prices weie securod foi the Lunond —Hyades filly, Pioljxo, who made 850 guineas, the Limond—Aspic colt, Tout le Mond, 800 guineas, the Caia\el—Vanga gelding, Vojagei, and the Innioud —Waterw ings colt, Chile, each 600 guineas; the Cluet Rulei— Comedy Queen. gelding, Michael Angelo, the Weathervane —Stardincer gelding, Volga Boatman, and the Diacqucnod— Oratress gelding, Oratorious, all at 500 guineas. .Of. this- lot, none has yqt achieved greatness, though Prolyxo and Oratonous are winners. Voyager has not started, and Chile has been produced only once. In this year's catalogue there are yearlings from' Comedy Queen, Waterwings, and Phaola, a daughter of Hyades. The other mares are not represented. From the racing point of view, New Zealand is practically self-contained, and there is no reason, except the, all-pervad-ing one of the slump, r why theie should be such a severe falling-off in prices at this month's auction as,there has been m other lands. In Australia last season one film sold 293 yearlings, and only 43 realised 200 guineas oi above The highest price vvaa 750 guineas, for a by the untried sire Sjlvius (imp ), from Kiltray, by Linacre. A Rossendale colt'went at 700 guineas, aud colts by Heroic and Biazen for 600 gum

Another.' 'firm, with' '■liffi ■» yearfmgs sold, obtained 200 guineas or more for only 27, and oijy three exceeded 500 guineas. A HigMeld colt 1-ealiscd 650 guineas, an Heroic' colt, 600 guinea, and a Sslvius colt, 530 r gumeas. A colt by 'Heroic from Gloaming's Sister -was" withdrawn at 1000 guineas. '~,", In Melbourne, oiil of 79 offerings m'one catalogue.sold, .'ohly. four fetched 200 guinea^ or ovcr.'ai^d-a further instance was provided in the same city, when- of 140 sold, only 20 touched the low 200 guineas mark. • ' < .' "^ <

In the 1930, season .in England, where average, values are-still mtrcfi higher than in the Antipodes, 82 yearffflgs.weiy spld at over 1000 guineas. Sir Charles Hyde tvas the hig'iest bidder, at 7500 guineas, for the colt By 'Blandfosd, fiom Florena, by Orby. A colt by Hurry On from Pagan Sacrifice, by Cicero, sold for 7100 guineas, died. Dm ing the English season, jut>t closed, only 51 made more than 1000 guineas. Top price was paid by an American woman, Miss Dorothy Paget, for the tolt by Spion Kop, from, Waffles, dam of Manna (Derby) and Sand-nich (St. Legerl, at 6600 j guineas Of the total only fi\e Brought 3000 guineas or over. The experience of French, German, and American, breeders has been worse. In twp years in^U.S A.^bloodstoek returns have declined over>6Q per cent. Jlow far they have fallen is '£i*mplifieU by >ihe fact that -'a magnificently-ibrca ' tTifee-jfear-Qld 2,0% trotter fouiwliwnew ©wner-for £260J« PARADE, Of? YEARLINGS *'( " — *,*'- s A,parade,'of*the- yearlings to be-sold, at the national, sales next -vc-eL -will b,c held on Sunday afternoon at Trentham*

K^GLLME&E'S,

Ever smce Mark Twain coined tho phrase that the report of his demise had been "grossly exaggerated" there have been others, of, lesser celebrity, who have had the doubtful pleasure of leading the false "report of their death. The cases are sot confined to human beings, however, and many a racehorse has 1. 'Ed to win races after^it has been reported dead —tho term "dead" Apt being used here in theiVeruacular of the racecourse. The latest to achieve fame is,Knollmere, concerning whom a report was in circulation < in Wanganui on Saturday to the effect that he had broken a fetlock at Koatanui and had ,to be, destroyed, says "Kestrel." It was subsequently ascertained that Knollmere was not the victim of the incident, the horse being Cyrille, whose demise has, already been, reported Kuollmere, who' Was the' Subject of the enoncous report, is a four-yeUr-old vgelding by Grandcourt from Orozino* 'He is owned 1 y Mr. J. A. Tod'd and is trained at Wanganui by W. H. Dwyer.