THE YEARLINGS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 115, 29 April 1911, Page 3

THE YEARLINGS.

NEARLY 80.000 GUINEAS PAID. 2100 GUINEAS FOR A COLT.

VICTORIANS PURCHASE

LARGELY.

Visitors to the autumn sales of thoroughbred yearlings during the week must, says the “Sydney Morning ’Herald,” have been impressed Willi Hie expansion of the breeding industry in this State, and also with ’the quality of the young stock paraded in the different saleyards, where the array of locally-bred youngsters was supplemented, by drafts from South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, and New Zealand. Sydney is now recognised by vendors and purchasers as the great entrepot for the distribution of blood stock in Australasia, and that was plainly manifested by the number of visitors who assembled at the ringsides, and the large sums invested in the purchase of the juvenile thoroughbred.

. During the three days 521 yearhngs were sold under the hammer for a grand total of 79,5591gn5, an average of Is2fgns. Messrs. William Inglis and Son sold 313 lots for 50,290gns ; Messrs. H. Chisholm and Co., distributed 160 for 26,425 gns, and Messrs. MacCabe. Morton, and Co., 48 for 2844gns. The valuable prices hung up by the leading racing clubs, especially in this State and Victoria, have given a great impetus to the bloodstock industry, and purchasers come prepared to pay big prices

for youngsters of breeding and quality. There were no sensational prices given at the sales just ended—nothing like that paid for Orcus a few years ago, when his brother Poseidon was at the zenith of hie fnmp ns n. raephnrsp • hut the

averages have been good. A couple of lots at Messrs. Chisholm and Co.’s sale on Tuesday ran into four figures. Morilla’s half-brother brought 1100 guineas, and 1050 guineas purchased the brother to Mountain King, while a number of lots fetched prices ranging from 500 to 900 guineas. On the opening day of Messrs. William Inglis and Co.’s a local sportsman gave 1500 guineas for a Malster colt, and a couple of youngsters ’ brought 800 guineas each. When on Thursday evening Mr.

John Inglis informed his audience at the ringside that on the following day the youngsters to be paraded would eclipse those that he had just disposed of. his statement was received by the uninitiated with just a shade of doubt, but the promise was fully justified by the quality of the juveniles that were submitted yesterday afternoon. -The highest price of 2100 guineas, was given by Mr. J. Brown, the owner of Prince Foote, for a well-grown and symmetrically-shaped Malster colt, half-brother to Sylvander. whose dam, Lady Grafton, is byGrafton (imp.) from Lady Roodee.

irom neepsase, by I attention. This aristocratically - bred youngster brought about keen competition, I and finally the competitors were reduced to Messrs. J. Brown and J. Scobie, the former securing the colt. The Victorian visitors, however, secured some choice lots. When the half-brother (bv Bobadil) to the V.R.C. Maribvrnong I Plate winner Philio entered the ring he was quickly run up to 900 gs, at which price he was knocked down to the Melbourne trainer C. Wheeler, but the bid was disputed by I. Foulsham ,another trainer from the southern capital, and the colt was again submitted to com-i petition. It was an interesting duel between the pair, and Wheeler, lasting the longer, secured the

good-looking youngster for Mr. J. F. Kirby, the owner of the Australian Cup winner The Parisian, for 155Qgs. James Scobie purchased a beautifully-shaped colt (brother to Salvia), byJf«l«L>r f rO m Gaillardia, by (son of Musket), for IOOOgs, and a strapping son of Malster and the Grafton mare Grafton Lass, for 700 gs. Mr. E. E. D. Clarke secured one of the gems of the sale —a sister to Boabdil and Bobby, bred at the Bonnv

Vale stud. Victory*, for 800 g s: Mr. H. A. Currie got a half-brother (by Malster) to Dunolly for 625g5, and several other lots at prices ranging from 400 to 600 gs. were purchased by Vivtorian sportsmen. Mr. G. Millsom, of Sydney, bought theh

full brother to Posadas, bred by Hon. Geo. Lee at the Leeholme stud, for 700 gs, and Mr. Adrian Knox gave 500 gs. for a half-bro-ther (by Royal Artillery) to Sylvanite.