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y SON OF PLAUDIT BRINGS HIGH PRICE. Brighton Stable Fays J. H. Morris ,000 for Yearling: Racer — Many Other Good Youngsters Sold. Rear York. June 58. The best price paid at a;ic tion this year for a thoroaghbred yearling was realized Toesday aighl when the Bosqae Roaita roaag-s! is of John I!. Morris and a feu other yearling* were aaM ai Barlaada Hiding Academy by the P ii rs-ltuni ■;■:■■ Company. All the roaagstera aeal to the sale by Mr. Morris were by Plaadit and. will: few exceptions, bruaghl aricea that deaoted a healthy totereat in the turf. The oiitst aadlag colt that attracted gearral attea tion by his looka was a broara by 1toadit Wild Thistle, lie is a half-brother to Blue Thistle aad, Ising foaled early in Timaaij . looked id;; aad atroag • Dough to rai e at oai •• There was spirited bidding as sonn as he v.is led into the rin-. with J. B. Wd- m . .1. V. M.-Clellia, and ieorgu D. Smith, arhe racea nadcr the name of the Brightoa Stable, aa the chief coateadera. The price ajoaated qahrkly aatil ii reached siiimhi ami fr-in that point it was a duel Tor lie noaaession ol the prise between tl wiar of tin- Brighton Stable and Mr. YVhoii. r. At sT.twiu Mr. Wideaer gave up. and tiie eoit was kaacked doara to the Brighton Slab!-- for that sum. The -on »f lMiudil is ragaged in the Futurity an I Breeders Fataritj of next ycai aad the Travers Slakes and Latoaia Championship for 1019. Many other likely yoaagstcra were purchased by the Brightoa stab! ■■. while an-ong the other large liii.vcs we: ■• J. V. McCl II an I am; Krnil Hers. !-:i "Vi u horses consigned by Mr. Morris bcoeghl 5,850, an average of ,445 ami the aale total for twenty three yeariiaga readied 7,425, an average of nearly 00.
