BRITISH BLOODSTOCK
SALE OF SIR ABE BAILEY’S HORSES [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] LONDON, 3rd December. The most important bloodstock sale for many years was held to-day, when more than eighty horses owned by the late Sir Abe Bailey were under the hammer at Newmarket. The “Daily Telegraph” says that the sale in normal times would have realised £IOO.OOO, but to-day’s total was £45.000. The Epsom trainer. Frank Smyth, paid 2500 guineas for the seven-year-old mare. Lovely Rosa, in foal to Blue Peter. The highest price for a two-vear-old was 5000 guineas for Sunlore. j Sir Abe Bailey’s horse Son in-Law was J not offered.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 5 December 1940, Page 5
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