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BUYERS FROM ABROAD AT NEWMARKET. One of my friends writes in a contemporary and suggests that foreign buyers were, after all, not predominant at Newmarket, but he underrates the position, as there were many buyers for abroad who did not appear in the figures given. For instance, the Roi Herode colt for 1,700 guineas on the last dav is for Australia, and the Veneration filly at 4,000 guineas is for America, though they will untrained in England for the time being. Mr. Clarence Haileys purchases were for Australia, and not for India, as generally imagined. It needs hardly to be stated that yearlings would be of no use in India. Then there are many other purchasers in the Newmarket list that were for abroad. I myself bought Mr. Murlands Snnstar colt on the second day for Mr. Grant Hugh Browne, and this colt is off to America next week. His price was 020 guineas. Then, too. there were several purchasers whom I have not the pleasure of knowing personally, but their names are clearly not English. Besides all this there remains the stimulus to the prices that was given by foreign and colonial bidding, even when such bidders were not successful. All the same, however, the home market was undoubtedly strong, and Sir Thomas Dowar, who was among the principal buyers, is not yet stopping short, for he lias since the sales bought through Mr. R. A. Brice, Galaxv, by Radium Galeta dam of Amadis, In-victa "and Merula, tracing to Gertrude dam of Charibert and Chilperie, by Saunterer out of Queen Bertha winner of the Oaks. This is the best of the late Lord Falmouths line of blood and Galaxy is the third young mare of the sort which Sir Thomas Dewar has secured, the other two being Rarity sister to Clarrisimus and Dew of June, by Polymelia, and tracing to Hermione through La Belle Helene. There is, in short, no doubt that certain stalwarts mean holding the fort for the British thoroughbred market or no market, and they are right in a patriotic sense, anyhow. W. Allison,, in Loudon Sportsman.
