SALE OF YEARLINGS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17472, 22 January 1931, Page 3

SALE OF YEARLINGS

SATISFACTORY PRICES TOP PRICE FOR LIMOND'S STOCK (Per Press Association.) WKLUNOTON, last nighl Very satisfactory prices were realised to day ill the annual nai ional sales of thoroughbred yearlings held by Messrs. Wright, Stephenson uml t !o„ I I. ( '. ( 'hisliolm and < 'o., and I 'yne. Gould, ((illness. Ltd., 'selling in conjunction for the lirst time. The general impression, prior to the sale was that the four-figure prices of the last few years would not be reached, hul that there would he good buyers bar picked lots. Actually, competition was coml practically throughoHi the sale, and lIS lots were sold under the lianiineiA rcprosenl ing In view of the remarkable success . ii.in.vnl by die .-lock uf l.inioml in classic events, followed b.\ the big day on Tuesday a! Trenthain, il was natural that the top price of tho sale would be paid for stock by this sire. There were only a few l>y 1 amend offered and they fetched top price for both colt and (illy. The actual top price went to a sister of the crack two-year-old Amnion Ita, who was purchased by .Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co., as agents, for SuOgns. Eight hundred guineas were paid for a Lirnond colt, a half-brother to Aspian. lie went to Ur. M. <!.' Lottisson. A brother to AgriOn realise,! GiJOgns, being purchased by Mr, G. l>. Greenwood, who formerly raced Agrion. An attractive colt by Caravel from the New South Wales stud of Mr. 11. A. Taylor, was sold for (iOOgns to Mr, .1. T. .laiuieson. Mr. •<:. M. Carrie, of Koatanui stud, secured the top/nveriigc at the sales, J.U lots averaging 2G4gns. The Wcstmere draft of Mr. John Donald produced the largest return, 3()3sgns, at an average for the I" of 170gns. Twenty-eight yearlings bred and reared at Klderslio. averaged I7oglis. The lop price for Kldorslio was 400 guineas, for a half-brother by Tea Tray to Mystic Peak. Chief Holer's top price was DOOgns for a first foal from Comedy Queen, Messrs. .I. W. and 1,. W. Story, of Christchurch, realised fiOOgns, for a line colt by Weathervane from Stardancer. He if; a half-brother to Limelight. The Nightruids \Yf\-v all in paddock condition and. although they did not look so attractive to the eye as the other lots, they were bid up to fair values by keen judges. Nlghtraid's best price was 250gns for a halfbrother to Economist. in all, 148 lots averaged I2Bj|gris for a total of 19,025gn5.