SYDNEY YEARLING SALES
TOP PRICE WAS 4300 GUINEAS NEW RECORDS CREATED Recd. 11.53 p.m. Sydney, April <3. With an aggregate of 95,575 guineas changing hands for 146 lots, New South Wales records were created at the first day of the annual yearling sales in Svdney to-day. The average price was slightly in excess of 654 guineas. A. O. Romano, owner of Bernborough, paid top price of the day when he bid 4300 guineas for a halfbrother to Modulation, a colt by Le Grand Due. A Midstream (imp.) Idle Words colt, brother to Shannon, was sold to E. R. Williams, of Sydney), for 4000 guineas. One hundred colts were sold at an average of slightly more than 783 i guineas. The average for 46 fillies was slightly in excess of 374 guineas. A draft from P. Miller’s Kia Ora stud, dominated the sales. Thirteen lets were sold for 24,650 guineas, an average of slightly more than 1896 guineas. Progeny of Le Grand Due topped the market, four of his fetching 9850 guineas, an average of 24625 guineas. Midstream’s six sons were sold for 12.000 guineas The quality of the offering generally was fully equal to that seen at any Sydney sale in the past decade.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 94, 24 April 1946, Page 5
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204SYDNEY YEARLING SALES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 94, 24 April 1946, Page 5
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