FROM £10 TO 37,500 GUINEAS
We all "but lost Stoekwell to a French bidder in 1860, pays an English paper, and had we done &o, there would have been no Blair Athol, nc Doncaster, and no Flying Fox. Viewed in this way, it is indeed funny lo trace the 37,000-pounder and Stoekwell himself to the old Irish mrre offered by his farmer owner to a neighbouring priest for £10. Had the latter purchased her there would have been no such string of smashers at, are here given, but the priest's offer of but £5 so incensed the farmer that he refused to sell at all, and sent the mar© instead to a neighbouring sire, Birclcatcher— no 400 guinea fee then ! — the produce being The Baron ! Wp have thus to thank the -r orthy priest for what followed : — 'The old £10 mare. The Baron, Stockwell, Doncaster, Bend Or, Ormonde, Orine, Flying Fox, and the Kingsclero tale, which sont the fourth " groat grandson" of the ten-pounder up to 37,500 guineas !
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Otago Witness, Issue 2412, 24 May 1900, Page 38
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168FROM £10 TO 37,500 GUINEAS Otago Witness, Issue 2412, 24 May 1900, Page 38
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