SYDNEY YEARLING SALES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 8

SYDNEY YEARLING SALES

SYDNEY, April 28. Buyers spent £98,754 on racing stock during the autumn sales just concluded. A total of 284 yearlings brought £80.062; .8 racehorses £11,397; GO mares £4000; and eight stallions £2695. , On the last day of the .sales nine yearlings by The Buzzard brought GOTO guineas, six colts bringing r.550 guineas, and three tillies 1120 guineas. Three horses by the same sire won at Randwlok ou Saturday, and experts said that this put hundreds of guineas on to the value of The Buzzard stock otl'ercd at the Wlien bidders refused to go beyond 1900 guineas for his nine-year-old stallion Talking, Mr. Alan Cooper, the most colourful figure of the Australian Turf, walked out of the auctioneer's rostrum in disgust. He gave 19,000 guineas for Talking in 103 G. Talking is the sire of the A..T.0. Derby winner Main Topic , and was purchased by Mr. V. V. Kelly for the Killarney Stud. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "K.O.F."—W.W., £9 8s; S., £1 lls; 8., £2 0s 6d. "Wager."—Great March did not run. "Postman."—As Maeedoine was bracketed with Doubleack there were only seven tote numbers and no place dividend for third.