NOT WANTED.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 965, 3 September 1908, Page 6

NOT WANTED.

Mr. Jas. R. Keene’s experiment of sending nineteen yearlings from America to England for sale was not a marked success. The critics pronounced the youngsters “a poor lot,” and though one filly realised 750g5., the next highest figure was 410 gs, and .a couple changed hands at 80gs and 50 gs respectively. Naturally English breeders do riot take kindly to American competition, and subsequent to the Keene sale the “Special Commissioner” expressed satisfaction at the fact of - Messrs. Tattersail having exercised their right of censorship, and discouraged Mr. Haggin’s idea of sending between 100 and 200 yearlings to the old country for sale. Fifty was Messrs. Tattersail’s estimate of • the - highest number that might find buyers in October.