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BIG PRICES FOR AUSTRIAN YEARLINGS. From Deutscher Sport I gather that the recent sale of yearlings bred hi Hungary at the Napajcdl Stud was extraordinarily successful, twenty-seven youngsters lieing sjold for 12..0S3 sovereigns, an average of nearly 481 sovereigns per head. Needless to say the sale was held prior to the overwhelming successes of the Russians in the Buko-vina, it having taken place on June 14. It is interesting to note that the two highest-priced yearlings were colts by Woolwinder, Baron A. le Rothschild giving 1,141 sovereigns for a colt by Woolwinder out of Doute, andIlerr N. von Szemere 858 "Sovereigns for a. colt, by tc same" sire out of Knlina. Other youngsters by Woolwinder also sold well, four more of them realizing over ."00 sovereigns apiece. A filly by Wbmbwell fetched 75S sovereigns, and youngsters by The Story and St. Auiant were sold for about a "monkey" each. When one compares the prices realized at this sale with those obtained last year in the First .luly week at Newmarket, one cannot avoid the reflection that the slump in values in this country is due to the wholesale cancellation of race meetings last year at the instance of the board of trade. The figures speak for themselves, for at the First July Sales 133 .yearlings fetched 12.310 guineas, an average of only 07 pounds, - shillings, 0 pence per head, ,as against an average of 4S1 sovereigns per head for the twenty-seven Hungarian-bred yearlings sold at Napajcdl. Oiily yesterday pointed out that in France the position of breeders of thoroughbreds for sale is still worse tlian it is here, and simply owing to the enormous depreciation in values caused by the complete stoppage of racing. In England, however, the general position is altogether different to that in France, a great part of whose soil is still in the possession of the German armies of invasion. In the circumstances one can readily understand why there is no racing across the channel. England, however, is entirely free from the foot of the invader, and in the interest of our great horse breeding industry in which- millions of capital have been sunk and to which we are indebted for a great, part of our army horse supply, a continuance of racing on an extended scale to that of, the last year or so is imperative. r" Vigilant" iu Eoadou Sportsman.
