ENGLISH YEARLING SALES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1576, 8 July 1920, Page 31

ENGLISH YEARLING SALES.

We look to Newmarket for high prices to rule for bloodstock brought under the hammer there. Big money has sometimes been obtained at auctions in other parts of the world for thoroughbreds, but most of the record sales have been made in England, and Newmarket continues to be the leading emporium of the world. At one time 1000 guineas for a yearling was reckoned a big sum even there, and it only seems a few decades back since buyers who went above the sum named were referred to as reckless. There have been many high-priced failures, but some of the highest-priced yearlings have justified their purchase, and with the prospect of owning something good enough to win classic honours, good races and distinction, sportsmen with wealth behind them are ever in the field. The first of the regular yearling sales held at Newmarket this season, according to a cable last week, confirmed the general belief that prices for English bloodstock would not likely drop, but on the contrary, were likely to be maintained at the high standard of pre-war times. Last year the result of the Newmarket sales was such as to support such a view. So far, a Sunstar colt at 7000 guineas heads the list, and a filly by The Tetrarch realised 5100 guineas, a colt by Pemmern making 3100 guineas. As we have some of the same strains of blood in the colonies, breeders who keep in touch with such matters will be interested in the brief message referred to.