HIGH PRICES, HIGH FEES.
Commenting upon stttd matters, an English -writer says. As stud fees have gone up, so have prices for high-class thoroughbreds. For instance, Lord George Bentinck sold 208, including the Derby winner Bay Middleton and the brood maro Crucifix and Surplice* for
lOjOQOgs, and "even so recently as 1856 the Derby winner of 1851, Teddington, only realised 800 sovereigns. Such prices, of course, permitted low stnd fees ; but the question becomes very different when it comes to a matter of paying £31,500 for Ormonde, £21,000 for St. Blaize or Galtee More, £18,000 for Kendal, £17,000 for Matchbox (a hard bargain that was), £15,000 for Common (who is worth every penny of it), £14,000 for Doncaster, £13,000 for Carbine, and £12,500 for Blair Athol. .
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Otago Witness, Volume 30, Issue 2353, 30 March 1899, Page 36
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126HIGH PRICES, HIGH FEES. Otago Witness, Volume 30, Issue 2353, 30 March 1899, Page 36
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