HYPERION'S STOCK
GOOD PRICES OBTAINED
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
LONDON, December 5.
The biggest bloodstock sales of the war opened yesterday, when Horace J. Brueton, a prominent Midlands bookmaker, paid the two best prices, buying High Profit (Hyperion—Pennycomequick) for 4000 guineas and the five-year-old sprinter Brunei for 3600 guineas.. ' . Ninety-five lots were sold on the first day, and though they included many of moderate quality, the total paid was 41,750 guineas. The two-year-old filly Pukwana (Papyrus-^Concordio) shared top price of 4000 guineas, Peter Burrell, a director of the National Stud, being the buyer. Merchant Navy (Hyperion—Rose of England) failed to reach the reserve, and was subsequently sold for 2500 guineas to the British Bloodstock Agency, which is sending him to South Africa. • | All Hyperion's stock was in great demand.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 8
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