£40,000 SALE REPORTED
DERBY WINNER BAHRAM NEW ZEALAND BUYER (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, August 5 According to the Daily Herald, the Aga Khan’s Derby winner Bahram has been bought for £40,000 by the British Bloodstock Agency for a New Zealander.
Bahram was unbeaten champion of the English Turf in 1934 and 1935, winning nine races and stakes aggregating £43,086. He was then retired to the stud at a fee of 500 guineas, which is the highest demanded for any sire in England. As a two-year-old Bahram won the National Breeders’ Produce Stakes, the Rous Memorial, Gimcrack and Boscawen Stakes and the Middle Park Plate. He was at the head of the Free Handicap for 1935, in which year he won the triple crown—Two Thousand Guineas, Derby and St. Leger—and also the St. James’ Palace Stakes. Among the first of Bahram’s progeny to race was the filly Great Truth, bred and raced by the King. Great Truth won two races. Other Bahram winners were Turkhan, who won the Coventry Stakes, and The Druid.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21184, 6 August 1940, Page 9
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