LOW-PRICED VALUABLE HORSES.
A great deal of judgment and intelligence} can be employed in making good bargains in horseflesh, says the Sporting Life, and it adds the following interesting information : — The source of the great Blacklock family was a little cripple mare sold for three sovereigns at a country market. The Flying Dutchman was out of a maro, that cost 36sovs at York. The dam of The Hero, when carrying him, cost lOsovs, and the dam and grand-dam of the great horse Sterling — viz., Silene-e and Whisper — were the hacks of a county house, not valued at five-and-twenty a-piece, and yet the sources of one of the greatest lines of the day when mention is made ol Isonomy. Then there was See-Saw, out of Margery Daw. who cost 25sovs ; Robert the Devil, out of Cast-oft", who cost 20 ; Althorp. from Pandora, who cost about the tame ; Carlton, out of Bonny Spec, who wos sent to Taltersall's, mare and foal together, with a reserve of 30 on the mare and 10 on the youngster : and, more remarkable than all, the great horse Isinglass, winner of Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, and St. Leger, was out of a mare that once cost 19gs.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2397, 8 February 1900, Page 40
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200LOW-PRICED VALUABLE HORSES. Otago Witness, Issue 2397, 8 February 1900, Page 40
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