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ROCK SANDS INSURANCE SETTLED. I hear from M. Ilalbr. mi that the dispute over Um insurance on R. ck Sand lias at last been amV-nhly concluded and that the underwriters have, in fact. agreed to pay ninety per cent of the amount claimed, which was on a valuation of something over 4A.0M guineas. If ever there was a horse worth that sum Rock Sand unquestionably was at the time of his daatb — indeed. I have in my possession Mr. Belmonts written refusal to acetyl tMO.OOo it Rock Saids KM. Traccrv. who was running at the time when Rock Sand died. However, nils well that ends well. and. thsasjh one may think the long and tedious delav Itefore settlement was hardly fair to the Rock Sand svmli catc. and not in Ml ordance with the best tradJ lions of l.lovds. it may Im. remembered, on the oilier han. I. that we are now under war c inditious. and the paying apt for a horse at pre-war value is a nasty wreuch for even the most solid under writers. — "The Special Commissioner iu Loudon Sportsman.
