LATE SPORTING
YEARLING’S RECORD PRICE LONDON, September 12. The world’s record, price for a yearling racehorse sold by public auction was paid during the second day of the Newmarket sales when Gaekwar Baroda gave 28,000 guineas for Sir Eric Ohlson’s bay colt by Nearco from Rosy Legend and a full brother to this year’s Derby winner, Dante. The previous record for a yearling sold at a public auction was 15,000 guineas paid by Miss Dorothy Paget in 1936 for the Fairway-Golden Hair colt, which was subsequently named Colonel Payne. Gaekwar Baroda paid 11,000 guineas for a colt by Fairway from Epona. _ A West Indies sugar planter Mario Junior, who is one of the leading owners in the United States, paid 11,000 for a colt by Hyperion from First-Off. A filly by Big Game from Kossoue also .brought 11,000 guineas. A batch of six yearlings from Lord Derby’s stud brought an aggregate of 37,110 guineas, averaging 6,185 which is a record for six from an individual stud.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1945, Page 2
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