TO GET A CHAMPION
OWNER TAKES A TRIP When a breeder wishes to buy a stallion, he has to take a lot on trust, unless he buys a horse that has already proved himself a success, and those horses are practically unpurchaseable in England. Mr. Percy Miller is off to the Old Country to buy a horse, but he may have overlooked a better bargain nearer home (comments a .Sydney writer). As an example of what lias to be paid for a horse in England, UO.OOOgns. was refused for Shogun as a two-year-old, though he was not eligible lor the British Stud Book. At the sale of Mr. Rundle Brendon’s thoroughbreds at Easter, Mr. John Brown only paid 2,200gn5. for an unbroken English two-year-old colt by the crack sire Hurry On. This colt is from Paraffin Light, dam of three winners, and belonging to the celebrated Illuminata family, which gave us, among others, Cicero, sire of Valais; Rossendale, sire of Rampion; and Popinjay, dam of Magpie. This branch of the No. 1 family seems to acclimatise well here, and a buyer could hardly want any better pedigree for a stallion than that possessed by this Hurry On colt. Mr. Brown may have got a better bargain right here on the spot than Mr. Miller will get by a trip to England.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 648, 27 April 1929, Page 13
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221TO GET A CHAMPION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 648, 27 April 1929, Page 13
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