14,000 GUINEA MARE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1942, Page 4

14,000 GUINEA MARE

BIG PRICES FOR BRITISH BLOODSTOCK. British livestock breeders are already planning how they may help when peace comes in the immense task of stocking again those wide areas of Europe which have been robbed of their livestock. To co-ordinate what they are now doing and to help in the further work of grading up overseas herds after the war a Livestock Ex'port Group has been formed in London with the assistance of the Industrial and Export Council of the Board of Trade. Meanwhile racing men gave emphatic evidence of their confidence in these plans for the future when Tattersail’s held their autumn bloodstock sales at Newmarket. The 302 animals offered realised ai grand total of 99,677 guineas, an average of 330 guineas per head.

About half the total was accounted for by buyers’ leaping at the opportunity of acquiring the 42 head sold in the dispersal of Lord Furness’s Gilltown stud,'which made 49,005 guineas, an average of no less than 1,666 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 paid for a brood mare in public auction for sixteen years. She was bought for the Brownstown stud, the underbidder being the Aga Khan.