A GOOD BARGAIN.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 938, 27 February 1908, Page 5

A GOOD BARGAIN.

When Bright Steel’s number went up as the winner of the Oakleigh Plate, it was a tremendous surprise for the majority of those present (says the “Referee”), as there was really nothing to go upon with regard to his prospects. Sold as a yearling in England for lyoogns, he was never raced there owing to an attack of fever, and when offered at auction at Newmarket last year “ Mr Stanley ’’"'secured him for 68ogns. among the bidders being Mr G. G .Stead. A’though Bright Steel is very aristocratically bred, being by St. Simon from Glare (dam of the One Thousand Guineas winner, Flair, and last season’s crack two-year-old Lesbia), the “ Special Commissioner ” wrote that he was well sold at the figure mentioned, but as the Oakleighy Plate was worth the horse at his second appearance in pub’ic has returned more than his purchase money.