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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22822, 17 December 1948, Page 4 (Supplement)

TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL SALES OF THOROUGHBRED YEARLINGS At Our Stables, TRENTHAM TUESDAY. ißth lAM I ARY IQ4Q Tuesday 25iu WEDNESDAY, 19th X , WEDNESDAY, 2Glh (iii conjunction with the Wellington Cup Meeting) 478 YEARLINGS - 259 Colls and 219 Fillies The Progeny of 74 English, French and Colonial Bred Sires. A magnificent selection of potential racewinners. These Sales have provided (he winners of no less than IS."! three-year-old Classic events since they were established, as follows: Derby Winners 30 Oaks Winners 19 St. Lcger Winners 31 Guineas Winners 53 The new list of recent winners from previous catalogues includes TAULOCII. bought for 1050 guineas, which established a Dominion Stakes winning record for two-year-olds last season (£4850), and has been a winner at w.f.a. and of 3 Guineas events this term bringing total earnings to £9300; GREY NURSE, winner of 1918 Victorian R.C. Oaks, and Wakeful Stakes; GOLD SCRIPT, winner of the 1948 A.R.C. Welcome Stakes and Cambria H’eap; SUPER SNIPE, unbeaten winner of the 1948 W.R.C. Wellesley Stakes and Masterton R.C. Nursery H’eap; STANFRED, current season winner of 3 successive two-year-old races; GOLDEN SPA (1948 Well. R.C. Rosencath IPcap); LIMPID 71948 C.J.C. Spring Nursery Heap); HIS NIBS (Hawke’s Bay Juvenile IPcap); CORAL ARC (1948 W.R.C. Wellington IPcap. £3500): and the current season’s Hawke’s Bay Guineas winner VADOZ. The whole of the Leading Breeders in the Dominion concentrate on selling fheir yearlings at NATIONAL SALES with the result that these Sales provide Buyers with an extraordinary percentage of winners. With such large fields competing today ONLY THE BEST CAN SUCCEED, therefore Racing Men in fheir own interests should buy at. the NATIONAL SALES, where annually the progeny of the Best Sires provide the WORLD’S RECORD WINNER PERCENTAGE NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL SALES LEAD ALL OTHERS Statistics taken out over a period of years prove that almost ONE OUT OF EVERY TWO YEARLINGS sold at Trentham IS A WINNER. Compare this average with the statistics published in Sydney where ONLY ONE OU T OF EVERY SIXTEEN SOLI) IS A WINNER. An Australian paper published these remarkable figures regarding the Sydney Bloodstock Sales:— “According to statistics only about 50 out of 800 yearlings that are sold ever win a race. Four hundred break down before they have run. and another hundred or so race only as two-year-olds. These figures would mean that of every 800 yearlings sold ONLY G. 22 per cent WIN GREAT NEW ZEALAND RESULTS. Statistics were then taken out as a comparison in regard to the N.Z. NATIONAL SALES, and these prove that for a period of three years 401 yearlings were sold at Trentham and of these 222 were winners. A PROPORTION OF 48.15 per cent. It can he confidently asserted that no other yearling sale in any country of the world would show a higher percentage of winners among the horses sold. Catalogues are now available from all Branches of the Joint Auctioneers. Price 2/G each. SPECIAL SALE OF BROOD MARES RACING AND UNTRIED STOCK Will he held on FRIDAY. 28th JANUARY A high class entry includes Dispersal offerings on account of the deceased estates of the Late Frank Ormond (Karamu Stud. Hastings), and J. C. Kennedy (“Dungarvan,” Danncvirke). Catalogues available approx. 20th December. Price 1/- each. AUCTIONEERS IN CONJUNCTION WRIGHT STEPHENSON & Co. Ltd. PYNE GOuV d GUINESS, Ltd. G.P.O. Box 1520, Wellington, and G.P.O. Box 112, Christchurch and Branches throughout N.Z., also Branches throughout Canterbury. Melbourne, Tasmania, and London. 376

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