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FRENCH YEARLINGS IN HEALTHY MARKET. The yearling sales in France during the Doanville meeting in August were better than the average, as the totals and averages below will show: Ycnr Sold. Total. Average. VmI 2S!; 07,275 M.4II! urns w air :;iv,j -Vh j05 2i l!ll.:.0.l. 1.114 The top price at the sales was attained by Le Merlerault. a colt by Macdonald. which fetched .!.20. The purchaser was M. Jean Prat, who also ,r IK0 gave 0.4011 for Nicolas, a colt by Rabelais, and S.I.SOO for Rob Hoy. by Hebron. The produce of i Rabelais sold remarkably well, ills six yearlings fetching S2G.3O0. Nine yearlings by the deceased i1" Bay Ronald sold for t,420. which gives a smaller average than one might have anticipated after the reputation this horse has established at the stud. After M. Prat, the principal buyers were M. a! A. Vell-Pieard. who secured nine lots for ,270. Prlnw Murat six for U,NU. Baron E. de Rothschild lid six for S1K.4;0, M. Olry-Ho tlerer six for ;,:tti. , James Hennessv live for Slf.KJO. and W. K. Aau-derbllt m- three for 3,S0O.
