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INCREASING VALUE OF THOROUGHBREDS. The advance in the value of the thoroughbred in England is a healthful sign of the times. For ninny years the $:j0,tKX paid for the horse Priam was talked of as wonderful. It was the JOO.000 realized by Blair Athol In the early seventies at the .Middle Park sale that set the big figures rolling and then followed the 0,000 that the Duke of Westminster paid Robert Peck for Doncaster in 1S75. to make subsequent prices of the sort look moderate, lhe great price of S7.0H was paid for ! lying 1 ox, .-1.-1.000 for Diamond Jubilee, the same for Cyllene. 25,000 for Rock Sand, .25,000 for Sceptre as the highest-priced mare, and 03,000 each for both Galtee More and Ard Patrick. On the other hand, Itarbelle. the dam of The Flying Dutchman, only eost M at auction: Queen of the Roses, the dam of Revo dOr, winner of the Oaks, exactly the same amount: Queen Mary, the dam of Blink Bonny. $.!0O: Deadlock, the dam of Isinglass. 00; Bonny hpec, the dam of Carlton and Primrose Day, .K. and at the same time her foal. Carlton. . and Cast-OQ", the dam of Robert the Devil. 00.
