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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 430, 20 October 1898, Page 17

A San Francisco writer states : —“ John Mackay, Superintendent of Rancho del Paso, has gone East to confer with J. B. Haggin in regard to the proposed sale of thoroughbred yearlings in England. There are over 100 fillies at Rancho del Paso by well-known English, American, and Australian stallions,’ and competent judges agree that much better prices could be abtained by selling in England than in America. It is certainly a daring innovation to seek a market 6,000 miles away, but the venture is almost sure to prove a success, as the blood of Goldfinch, Watercress, Golden Garter, and Artillery is well and favorably known to the turfmen of Great Britain. In a few years the cable will doubtless tell of the success of a California-bred youngster in th® Oaks or some other English race."