Sporting and Dramatic REVIEW AND Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette. With which is incorporated the Weekly Standard Thursday, February 8, 1906. HIGH-PRICED THOROUGHBREDS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 831, 8 February 1906, Page 6

Sporting and Dramatic REVIEW AND Licensed Victuallers’ Gazette. With which is incorporated the Weekly Standard Thursday, February 8, 1906. HIGH-PRICED THOROUGHBREDS.

The recent sale of the King’s horse, Diamond Jubilee, for 30,000 guineas to the Argentine breeder, Senor I. Correas, following close on the purchase of Cyl’ene by Mr. William Bass for a s milar sum, has caused so much discussion (says “ Hagioscope,” in the London “ Sportsman”) that a table containing the names and prices of all thoroughbreds (and as far as possible the r ages at the time of sale) which have changed hands for £lO,OOO or over will doubtless be found interesting. It was nearly forty-one year® ago that the Marquis of Hastings electrified the Turf world by h s purchase of Kangaroo for 12,000 sovs. The co’t had won three races off the reel in the early spr ng for “ Mr. Henry” —which was one of the assumed names adopted from time to time by Mr. Padwick—and it was after Kangaroo’s v ctory over the Duke of Beaufort’s Koenig (a hot favourite) and a big field in the ill-omened Newmarket Biennial that the Marquis secured him for’what was then, and for some years afterwards, a record price for a racehorse. Not till 1872 was Kangaroo’s figure exceeded, and then for the stallion Blair Athol, who was purchased at the safe of the Middle Park Stud in July, 1872, for 12,500 guineas. Three years later this sum was surpassed, the late Duke of Westminster giving £14,000 to the late Mr. Robert Peck for Doncaster, whom the vendor had previously acquired for £lO,OOO. The Duke never made a better bargain, for Doncaster s red the Derby winner, Bend Or, from whom in direct descent came Ormonde, Orme, and Flying Fox. Not until 1890 was Doncaster’s figure equalled. Count Lehndorff in that year paid £14,000 for the Derby dead-heater, St. Gat’en, who for a long time stood at the Graditz Stud, before in his old age being acquired at a low figure by the Americans, owing to the stud success of h’s best son, Meddler. From 1890 to the present day prices for the best stations, mares, and a’so younger animals of fashionable blood have gone on increasing, and in September, 1891, the ’ate Sir J. Blundell Maple paid £15,000 for the triple crown winner, Common. Scarcely had the sensation caused by this big deal subsided when the news was cabled from the States that St. Blaise, who ’n 1885 had gone to Mr. Lorrilard’s stud, had been sold by auction for £20,000, which was the opening and closing bid. In 1892, Ormonde, whom the Duke of Westminster had parted with three years previously for £12,000, aga ; n changed hands, his South American purchaser, Don Juan Boucau, seeing him to Mr. J. O’Brien Macdonough, the Californian breeder, for the co’ossal sum of 150,000 dollars, or £31,250.

Even here, however, finality in_the matter of h'gh prices was not yet reached, for in the spring of 1900 M. Edmond B’anc, at the sale of the late Duke of Westminster’s horses in training, easily beat all previous records by securing Flying Fox for 37,500 guineas. Later in that year, too, the record price for a yearling, of 6000 guineas for Childwick, was beaten when Sceptre was sold at the July sales for 10,000 guineas. S'nce the day of Flying Fox’s sale Cyllene and

Diamond Jubilee have both fetched more money than Ormonde, without, however, approaching the sum paid by M. Edmoid B'Janc. Deta’ls: — £ Flying Fox, b c, by Orme— Vampire, 4yrs . . .. . . 39,375 Diamond Jubilee, b h, by St. Simon—Perdita 11., Syrs .. 31,500 Cyllene, ch h, by Bona Vista— Arcadia, lOyrs . . . . 31,500 Ormonde, b h, by Bend Or — Lily Agnes, 9yrs .. .. 31,260 Ormonde, b h, by Bend Or— Lily Agnes, 6yrs . . . . 12,000 Sceptre, b f, by Persimmon — Ornament, 4yrs . . . . 25,000 Sceptre, b f, by Persimmon — Ornament, lyr . . .. 10,500 Duke of Westminster, b e, by Orme—Gantlet, 2yrs . . . . 22,050 Galtee More, b c, by Kendal——Morganette, 4yrs . . . . 21,000 St. Blaise, ch h, by . Hermit— Fusee, llyrs . . . . .. 20,000 Ard Patrick, br c, by St. Florian Morganette, 4yrs . . .. 21,000 Kendal, ch h, by Bend Or —Windermere, 18yrs . . . . 10,500 Kendal, ch h, by Bend Or —Windermere, lOyrs . . . . 18,000 JBona Vista, ch h, by Bend Or — Vista, Byrs . . . . . . 16,458 Meddler, b c, by St. Gatien — Busybody, 3yrs .. .. 15,225 Meddler, b c, by St. Gatien— Busybody, — .. ■ ■ • ■ 11,000 Common, br c, by Isonomy— Thistle, Syrs .. ....15,000 Matchbox, b c, by St. Simon — Match Girl, 3yrs . . .. 15,000 St. Gatien, b h, by Rotherhill or The Rover —St. Editha, lOys 14,000 .Doncaster, ch h, by Stockwell — Marigold, syrs . . . . 14,000 Doncaster, ch h, by Stockwell — Marigold, syrs .. . - 10,000 Hamburg, b h, by Hanover — Lady Reel, — . . . • 14,000 Hamburg, b h, by Hanover — Lady Reel, — 12,000 •Carbine, b h, by Musket — Mersey, 9yrs . . . . . . 13,500 La Fleche, br m, by St. Simon — Quiver, 7yrs .. . . . • 13,230 Blair Athol, ch h, by Stockwell —Blink Bonny, llyrs . . 13,125 Kangaroo, b c, by Hobble Noble —Yarra Yarra, 3yrs . . .. 12,000 Nasturtium, ch c, by Watercress—Margerique, 2yrs . . 10,000