SPORTING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1943, Page 8

SPORTING

YEARLING SALES

TOP PRICE OF 1400 GUINEAS

For the fashionably-bred youngsters very satisfactory .prices were forthcoming at the concluding day of the National Yearling Sales at Trentham yesterday, the top price of 1400 guineas being secured for a* colt by Foxbridge from the Chief Ruler mare Rippling Waters. This juvenile was secured on behalf of Mr. F. H. Mehta, of Bombay, India, who has previously figured at the sales as a purchaser, and whose colours are at preesnt being carried in the Dominion by Banco. This was not the only yearling .bought on behalf of sportsmen resident in India, but the others were secured at more modest figures. One of the progeny of the new English sire Battle Song went to 1200 guineas, but this fine-looking colt remains in the Dominion, as presumably does a colt by Lang Bian from Cocoanut, knocked down to the Takanine trainer F. Smith, who was acting on behalf of a patron. This offering reached 950 guineas, and a colt by Defaulter from Merry Mist, an English mare, went at 925 giuneas, the purchaser in this instance being the former Randwick trainer J. T. Jamieson, but it is not known whether he was acting on behalf df an Australian buyer or not.

Inclusive of the Coronach—Lady Phroso colt who was disposed of prior to the closing of the catalogue, the purchaser being Mr. R. L. Atkinson, of North Queensland,© at a four-figure price, three of the yearlings topped the 1000 guineas mark, two topped 900, there were one. each at over 800, 700, and 600 guineas, four at over 500, and five beyond 400 guineas, materially assisting towards maintaining a very pleasing average over the whole sale. Aucklanders again operated very freely. In addition to the lots sold among the topliners they bought 21 yearlings, ranging from 460 guineas down to 45 guineas. The Takanini trainer F. Smith paid 460 guineas for the black colt out of the English mare Falcon, dam of Skyhawk, and he also secured the brown t colt by Phaleron