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TURF NOTES FROM LANDS ABROAD What is described as the record price of 7tO has iu iiMii been iinid paid bv a Belfast man for lor a seven yea yearolJ roia farm horse horseBusy Busy hands have been putting the finishing touches to the racecourses at MaisonsLaffitte near Paris France where the trials for crosscountry sport have Ixen finished They are to be followed by flat racing which liegins October in inS S B Joel has sold hi chestnut colt Petrol by Sunder Polyooley by Polyinelus to Charles Mc Xeill for xK rtation to Irazil Tlie colt has shown some g x d form and from his conformation should IM w ll suited to the conditions In South America AmericaXews Xews has reached Newmarket England of the letUi in action of George Markham the jockey who was apprenticed with S Pickering and rode tar 1Vlix loachs and It Days stables He was I vears of age and went out to France with the inanry regiment no as infantry Lord AVillonghby de Proke speaking at the AVar wickshire England Hunt Horse Show Septemlier o said that all officers who came back from the front stated that cavalry was in greater request than ever and the prophecy of those who said cavalry in modern warfare would prove a thing of the past had not been fulfilled fulfilledThe The English critics regard a French horse Due Decazcs Mont Saint Eloi as having a good chance for the Cesnrewitch Handicap to be run for October 30 at Xcwmarkct Donald Frasers Brown Prince is favorite for the nice The Ixjniloii Sportsman saytj of the race It is thirty years sinre a French candi ¬ date Tcncbrcnse won the Cesarewitch but it will not surprise one to see the Due Decazcs colt make i hid next month and for training he could not be in better hands than Itlackwclls ItlackwcllsFirst First class mares and promising yearlings continue to realize full value in England Among the sales effected at Xewmarket in July were Comparison eightyearold mare by William the Third Com ¬ bine 5200 Biplane eight years old by Ayrshire Gravitation with colt foal by Florist 3980 Altea two years old by William the Third Almuouth 980 bay filly one year old by Cicero Simony 9G20 bay colt one year old by Bayardo Cyanin 1040 and chestnut colt one year old by Chaucer Dictate 8000 Messenger was a thoroughbred of the best blood He was out of a mare bred by Lord Orosvenor in 1774 which was by Turf son of Mntchera dam by Regiihis This mare by Turf traced back in tail female to the Tregonwell Xatural Barb mare Messengers dam therefore and also he himself was a member of the famous Xo 1 family The sire too of Messenger was Mambriuo likewise one of Lord Grosvenors breeding Messenger was foaled in 1780 ami was sent to the States in 1788 He was a frequent winner at Xewmarket etc and like his sire he was a gray London Sportsman SportsmanThen Then were thirtyseven starters for the Cam ¬ bridgeshire of 1S73 which was remarkable for the success of a rank outsider in the French horse Montargis which beat Walnut by a short head and upset an enormous coup a penalty of three pounds incurred bv winning a hundred pound plate a fort ¬ night beforehand just turning the scales against Mr Foy xiii honors of the race belonged to Sterl ¬ ing which was third under 133 pounds and was giving nearly twentyeight pounds to King Lud which finished next French horses have brought off big coups in the Cambridgeshire among them Pent Etre in the following year Jongleur three years later Plaisanterie in 1885 and Alicante in 1890 Umion Siportsman SiportsmanRecently Recently attention was drawn to the success of the sale of thft Xapajedl yearlings in Austria Hungary but it has been reserved for the Hungarian Government Stud to cap all those figures by the sale of a yearling colt by Adam Prignitz to Count Behi Tricliy for 35000 which is a record for the stud ami i think has only twice been beaten by Sceptre and Cupbearer Prignitz was foaled in Germany but is of pure English blood by Galtee More Princess Patti by Royal Hampton After racing in that country she came to England and became the proi crty of H de la Rue who passed her on to bouiit Szapary and with a filly foul by Cicero and lirert to Mintagon she went to Hungary in 1911 tondon Sportsman
