The New York herald., 1921-09-11
YEARLING RACERS
AT HIGHER PRICES
Increased Earning Capacity Of
the Running Horse Reflected
in Saratoga Sales.

Prices for yearlings sold at Saratoga
this year fulfilled the prediction OF the
well known auctioneer. George A. Balm.
as published in THE HERALD last spring,
that the greatly increased earning capac-
ity Of race horses would be reflected
The Thoroughbred Horse. official organ
Of the Thoroughbred Horse Association
states that the 274 colts and fillies that
changed hands last month realized
s776.25o. or an average Of sa,sS3. This
average is not only about twenty-five
per cent. higher than last year. but ex-
ceeds the record average of 1919, when
226 head brought s5s6.95o, an average
of s2,s41.
Two colts topped the high price OF
1920. which was $4,000, full brother
to The Porter. by Sweep out of Ballet
Girl. by st. Leonards bringing s21. 900.
and Mary's Last. by Hourless out of
Mary Davis. by Watercress, making
$l4.5oo. Sweep not only got the colt
that topped the sales, but his offspring
teen head bringing s6S, S,4O0, or s5.262
around. Two or three other sires sur
passed this average. but they were
horses having only one or two yearlings
In the sales. Almost equally creditable
was the showing made by Celt, the son
or Commando and Maid of Erin, by Am
pnion, nineteen yearlings by him having
made S75,S00. an average Of s3,9S9.
ultimus. another son Of Commando, was
represented by seventeen yearlings, for
which the total was $50, 700, an average
or $S.5l2. Sixteen by imported Wrack
brought $4,000, an average of $3,619,
While eleven by Friar Rock brought
$oo.3o0. an average Of $4,573.
An unusual feature of the sales was
tnat Edward +. Simms, sending to ths
auctions the first crop Of yearlings from
MS newly established Xalapa Farm, in
Kentucky. realized higher average than
any other breeder having ten or more in
the sales. For him Mr.. Bain sold twenty
four head for $4,000, an average of
$f,os2. Among them were four that went
10 $4,000 or more. Two Of these were
by the comparatively untried sire Hour
less. another by Ogden and the other by
Star Shoot.
A. b. Hancock, who obtained the high
est average at the Saratoga sales of
1919, was the largest consignor Of year.
lings this season. His -wenty-seven head
by Wrack, Celt and other sires brought
$4,000. an average of s2.7s5. Capt p.
NJ. Walker. a Virginia breeder, sold
twenty youngsters for s62550, an aver
age of S3.127. Phil T. Chinn of Ken
lucky realized sss.30o, an average Of
S4,4l5. for the same number from his
Himyar Stud.
Other representative consignors were
j. II. Rosseter who sold sixteen from
his California ranch fer SIS $50, an av-
crage OF S3.641 Miss Elizabeth DANGER
field OF Lexington. KY, who received
$3l.sO0. an average OF $2.446 for thir-
teen Of her own breeding Mrs. wifred
Viau. who sold a like number, bred in
Kentucky, for s46.s00. al average Of
$4,000; A. X. Macomber. who sent
twelve French bred yearlings that
realized $13,650. an average of s1,137:
w. S. Kilmcr Of Binghamton, y. Y, who
obtained slS,500, an average Of s1.542.
for twelve. from Sunoriar Court; Will
liam Woodward. who sold eleven from
his Belaire Stud. In Maryland. for s43.-
500, an average OF s3.se4, and Emil
Herr. who realized 10000, an average
OF $4,000 for ten head from the Short
Grass Stud in Kentucky.
Family honors were pretty evenly d.
vided between the descendants of Domino
and Ben Brush. Thirty-eight yearlings
by sons and grandsons of the latter
horse sold for s131. $50. an average OF
s3.472, while fifty-one of the Domino
line were appraised at s167,S5O, an aver
age Of s3.291.