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THOROUGHBRED SALES m \ LONDON, Dec. 8. The total of 865,740 guineas for the December sales of thoroughbreds at Newmarket, which ended on Friday, makes the total paid in 1046 for thoroughbreds more than £'2,000,000, says the Daily Telegraph. The best year before the war was 19o», when the sales brought £1,000,000 Ninety-two horses were sold at the New market blookstoek sales yesterday for 31,08 e guineas, making the week’s total 860,74(* guineas, or 289,355 guineas in excess o£ previous record. . Lord Durham paid 2400 guineas for a to-year-old, The Witch, by Sandwich from Miraculous. She, last March, was given to the seller, Major J. Denistoun, to use as a hack. She has been covered by the Legend of France.
ARDULI’S ascot cup
nn -i ,u ) MELBOURNE, Dec., 0. The principal event at the Mentone meeting on Saturday resulted: . „„ , p Ascot Cup, 11 miles. —Arduli, 8- (Proa ton) 1; Mokan, 7.6 (Unkovicli), New Yorker, 6.11 (McFarlane). 3. Sixteen started. Half a length; a length and a quarter. Time, 2.10.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22199, 9 December 1946, Page 10
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