BOUGHT AT BIG FIGURE
Perhaps the most interesting purchase made at the Newmarket bloodstock sales in December was the colt foal by Trimdon out of Bridge of Allan, the dam of the Derby winner Mid-day Sun. He was sold to Geoffrey Barling, the young Newmarket trainer, for 2500 guineas. "It is true that seldom does a mare | drop two Derby winners, and, further, this sum of money seems a great deal for a foal who cannot run until the year after next," says an English critic. "So much can happen to a foal in his first winter, and we dll know how a two-year-old can change, from one to two years and then again from two to three. Still, Trimdon is a fashionable sire, and the dam is the dam of winners."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 21
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132BOUGHT AT BIG FIGURE Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 21
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