BROOD MARE 14,000GNS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 1, 9 January 1942, Page 2

BROOD MARE 14,000GNS

BIG PRICES FOR BRITISH

BLOODSTOCK

British livestock breeders are already planning lioav they may help Avhen peace comes in the immense task of stocking again those Avide areas of Europe which have been robbed of their liA r estock. To coordinate Avhat they are noAA r doing and to help in the further Avork of grading lip overseasi herds after the Avar a Livestock Export Group has been formed, in London with the assistance of the Industrial and Export Council of the Board of Trade.

Meamvliile racing men gaA 7 e emphatic eA 7 idence of their confidence in these plans for the future Avlien Tattersall's held their autumn bloodstock sales at NeAvmarket. The 302 animals offered realised a grand total of 90,677 guineas, an average of 330 guineas per head.

About half the' total Avas accounted for by buyers' leaping at the opportunity of acquiring the 42 head sold in the dispersal of Lord Furness' GilltoAvn stud, which made 49005 guineas, an aA r erage of no less than 1666 guineas. Carpet Slipper, a daughter of Phalaris, and in foal to Hyperion—she will drop either a brother or sister to Godiva—made 14,000 guineas, the highest figure

\ s 1 j paid for a brood mare in public auca: tion for sixteen years. She was 3 ; bought for the Brownstown stud, the 3 underbidder being the Aga Khan.