BRITISH BLOODSTOCK

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 156, 30 December 1944, Page 9

BRITISH BLOODSTOCK

BEST IN THE WORLD

LONtJON, December 11. Overseas buyers are waiting to pay £500,000 for British bloodstock as soon as wartime shipping restrictions are eased, reports the London "Daily Mail." This fact has emerged from 'United Kingdom bloodstock sales which this year have totalled more than £1,000,000. Last week's sales at Newmarket, England, reached the record figure of over half a million—an average of £797 for every pedigree racehorse sold. All over the world there is keen demand for British: bloodstock. Buyers from every neutral j and Allied country either went to Newmarket themselves or were represented by agents. The principal overseas buyers came from South America, South Africa, Australia, and Ireland. The thoroughbreds they have purchased will stay in England until transport is available to take them overseas. But for shipping restrictions, sales would have been even higher. For example, a British bloodstock agency! had commissions to buy for Chile 40 mares or fillies and 10 stallions but had to decline because of the shortage of shipping space. One reason why British bloodstock will always retain its world supremacy is the pari ticular quality of the soil and the abundant pasture land of England. Again, despite heavy overseas sales the most famous of all sires are still jn Ihe United Kingdom. At Newmarket Lord Derby, owner of the worldfamous racehorses Hyperion and Fairway, and Lord Rosebery, owner of Blue Peter, refused to accept astronomic figures offered for these great syes on behalf of would-be foreign