SALE-RING LOTTERY

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 34, 10 February 1931, Page 6

SALE-RING LOTTERY

SOME HIGH-PRICE FAILURES

The history of the Bale-ring, when racing stock is auctioned furnishes many incidents •of the sensational order, and it can be ■j-said that the purchases made in England !by the Aga Khan during the past ten years hold a prominent place. The Indian sportsman/like many others identified with "the', sport of kings," has more than once had tHe fact brought home ', to ■him that the purchase of yearlings is :a great lottery. Five horses'that were, • purchased by him as yearlings, and which : proved disappointments, were sent up to : auction in. England fii December. Their }. cost when they. were bought as yearlings ' amounted to 34,800 guineas, • but they > realised only llii) guineas, thus furnishing i a remarkable illustration of how horses can lose caste. , Details of the purchase and sale of the five horses sent up to auction jn December ; by the Aga'Khan arc us follows:

j. The/ Aga Khan was not the only buyer •'of .high-priced yearlings who experienced ; j a -disappointment arid >-ho subsequently i I quitted them at a low figure. At a sa!" , iin 1929 Lord Beaverbiook bought a,colt 'by 'Friar Marcus from the White Eagle .' mare Blanche for GOOO guineas. The colt, ! who was named- Allagash, failed to develop (the racing quality fondly^ anticipated, from ; his high breeding, and he was sent up for ; auction recently. Although the bidding 'for Allagash reached only, to 100 guineas, ihe was sold. ■ ;

Yearlings. Sold for fins. Gum. Aflab, by Pauj'rti.i—Smidart ■ 1-1,000 125 Eulnncl Dar, by tlioplion— / Saffian ..... 3,000 , 105 Farman Farma, by riialarls , —Clear C«se 9,100 105 Jlakeni, by Friar' Marcus— : ■ . Orlass ■.. .'.. '3,500 -100 Canga Plngh, by Splon Kop —Rackety Coo ..'. 5,200 0S0 ■ M ann mr.