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LIVE ENGLISH RACING NEWS Why The Panther Was Not Sold at Newmarket in October British Owners Win Stakes inj injCountries Countries Far Apart Great GreatRussian Russian Mare a Bargain Trillion Eng Oclolicr 2 Tho reserved price of 400 KI guineas slwmt 201cM placed on The Iiiiti r by Sir Alec Iilck barred his sale of crairse in l was rather amusing considering tlie limes inl nrices It was the same price saiil to luve been refused for Major Pelmonts Tracery T Tie ie Panthers sire and doubtless furnished tlie mark At iny rale The Panther wan not sold Commenting on the iiriec and The Panthers quality th Sportsmans Special Commissioner writes writesIt It is safe to say the buyer does not exist who will bill 40000 guineas right off at an auction sale I believe that The Panther is the best colt of his year and Mr Tattersall suggested that he is the best we have seen for ten years but tliat is a tall order for the threeyearolds of this year are exceptionally good as 1 have many times con ¬ tended tendedIn In the meantime The Panther is classed as the favorite for the 1919 Derby at Epsom which will surely bcs rimovor its home course courseMr Mr Sol I Joel has a good colt in Polygnotus by IVlyinelus Ornamental by Orme Grace Conroy lie won the Prendergast Stakes under 131 pounds ii suh fine style that the critics are all in love vith him It is well on the cards that lie is on a par with the best of his year though he is a bit K5ry and lightframed On tlie other hand he is tleiin hanly sort ofcolV with the best of limbs aiil is a rjire colored one a whole bay with black pfiiniK and be shows distinctly high character It is thought thai he may train on into as good a colt a Mr Joel has ever owned ownedTlie Tlie tnrf critics gemrally agree that Air Raid beat Tie for the Cesarewitch oniy because Otto Madden the veteran outrode A Smith at the finish Tlie feature of the opening days trials on the fiat at MaisoiisLafitte France October 17 was Jh hattrick accomplished by Mr V Grant as owner and M 1arat as jockey for with Coque loarde II Arrive and Gamaches they won three consecutive events the lastnamed twoyearold winning in a field of twentyseven runners runnersTracerv Tracerv Major Itelmonts great horse surely the first favorite with English breeders stands at Sonthcourt heighten Itnzzard at a fee of 250 guineas 12 a St Ainant and Itailiiim are at the same establishment Lembergs fee at the Hamilton Stud Newmarket is 200 guineas 1003 1003CATJIFIELD CATJIFIELD CUP AND MIDDLE PARK PARKMr Mr Allison in the Sportsman of yesterday writes 1 crest ingly as follows followsOn On Friday October IS Messrs Lionel Robin tmi and W Clark won the Middle Park Plate with Stefan the Great the first gray to win the Juvenile Biuc RihlKin Their good fortune was continued on Saturday October 19 although many thousands of miles away from Newmarket for late that evening I received a wire from Mr Lionel Uobinson King Offa won Caulfield Cup Tiiis is a most valuable handicap run over a mile and a half of the gross value of 2T 000 and second only in importance to the Melbourne Cup The Caulfield Cup is the big event of the Victoria Amateur Turf Club meet ¬ ing and of late years it has several times fallen to imported English horses In 1915 for example it was Avon by a fouryearold bv Chaucer named Laveudo and in 1910 the winner Shepherd King was also Englishbred by Martagoa King Offa is yet another bred in England His breeder was the late Lord Falmoiith and he is a fouryearold according to our reckoning but counts IK five years old in Australia He is by Radium Officious the latter a beautifullybred man of Col Hall Walkers breeding by Isinglass Meddle ¬ some sister to Meddler by St Gatien Busylmdy Oaks winner For some reason or other King Offa did not run here as a juvenile and Lord Fal iiouth sent him up for sale at Newmarket in tlie Jluiighton week of lillli As it now turns out his purchase for the trifle of 1000 reflects great credit mi Mr Lionel Robinsons judgment in buy ¬ ing him to be raced in Australia King Offa was a screaming favorite for the Caulfield Cup more than i week before the big race of which however I have no particulars as yet apart from the fact of his success successAt At the recent Newmarket Sales October 17 Ra ¬ keta a Russian classic mare was sold dirt cheap to Sir Abe Bailey The price was 3000 Raketa on the Russian Two Thousand Guineas One housand Guineas Oaks and St Iieger that is to say the corresponding races and the following year she won the Cups and she beat the best Austrian and German form In fact she is the best mare ever bred in Russia and after the war we may expect with some confidence that her pedigree certificate will be forthcoming from Russian au ¬ thorities thoritiesRaketa Raketa is thirteen years old by the English sire Collar Rhea Sylvia and in foal to Cicero CiceroAt At the same sale the owner of Raketa a Russian officer sold two others as follows Saint Agnes 1C by St Frusquin Ethel EthelAgnes Agnes Mr W Clark 7812 7812Jiv Jiv or brown filly by Sunstar Ethel Agnes AgnesMr Mr W Clark 3830 3830Saint Saint Agnes is in foal to Sunstar SunstarEven Even before the Avar ended so abruptly the Italian autumn race meeting at Rome was announced to lake place as usual and though Milan was close to tlie AustroItalian firing line a nice meeting was held there in October
