U.K. BLOODSTOCK

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 6 December 1944, Page 5

U.K. BLOODSTOCK

HIGH PRICES PAID 15,OOOGNS. FOR FILLY TWO 4000GN5~ PURCHASES (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) .((» a.m.) LONDON, Dec. ii. The biggest United Kingdom bloodstock pairs of, the war opened on Monday, whch Horace .1. Brueton. a prominent Midland** l>ookmaker, paid th> two best prices, Buying High Profit (by Hyperion from Ponnvcom*quick) for 4000g.i5., and the five-v: :.r-old sprinter Brunei for 3Googns. Ninety-live lots were sold the fir day. and although they included many of moderate quality, the total paid was 41 .. .FT us. The two-year-old filly Pukwana (by Papyrun from Concordia), shared the. top p oi' •UHiOgns.. Mr. Peter Burrell being tin buyer. Merchant Navy, the ISKlf* Derby whine.-. failed io reach his reserve, and was f.iibsoqucmly sold for LTiOOgns, to the British Bloodstock Agency. which is sending him to South Africa. All the Hyperion stock wan in groat demand. A record price for a two-year-old old bv auction was established to-day when iTrs. F. Nagle bought the filly Carpatica, I:- Hyperion from Campanula, for lii.OOOjxn: . The trainer Kml Darling paid 730Ogns. .' vr the ih roe-year-old Monsoon, by U mid war from Heavenly Wind, who ran second’in lie- Daks ami fourth in the SI. Letter. Ar: Irish breeder paid r,.loogiin. for tie- ihr. .• -y. a r-old onsl.es, by DoruiL-110 II from Orison, who was unbeaten last season, but disrtppa.'nird this year. The An«t Khan sold the two- 1- "-old Daman, l>y Bahrt from Una, tor Miss Dorothy Paget, who paid 4haogi,s. as a yearling for Clarendon, half-broiacr to Sun Chariot, sold him to-day for M r »: