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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 1, 1 July 1938, Page 13

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NEARCO SOLD TO ENGLAND

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, June 30. • The Rome correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that, in order to assist payment of foreign imports, Signor Mussolini has sanctioned the selling by its owner, Signor Frederico Tesio, of the unbeaten horse Nearco, winner of the Paris Grand P,rix, for 160,000 guineas, to the British owner, | Mr. Martin H. Benson, for stud puri poses. This equals the record price Sir Mallaby-Deeley paid for the Derby I winner Call Boy.

It was Mr. Martin Benson who bought Windsor Lad after he had won the Derby for 50,000 guineas, and Nearco will now join Windsor Lad at the Beech House Stud, Cheveley, Newmarket. Windsor Lad stands at 400 guineas, and it may be assumed that Nearco's fee will be as high. Another Italian horse, Dohatello 11, after running second in the Grand Prix last year (his first and only defeat), was purchased by Mr. Edward Esmond for a price understood to have been 45,000 guineas, and he is now at the Brickfields Stud, Newmarket, at a fee of 400 guineas, with his book full for 1938, 1939, and 1940. The world's record price for any horse is the £64,000 paid for the Arab Karta filly. Not only Call Boy and Nearco, but Captain Cuttle also sold for 60,000 guineas, which is the second highest price ever paid-for a horse and the record for thoroughbreds. Captain Cuttle broke his back shortly after the sale. Tracery was sold for £53,000 and Windsor Lad for £50,000. A price of £50,000 was stated to have been offered for Le Ksar after he had won last year's Two Thousand Guineas. — "Rangatira."