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BOTAFOGOS SALE AND HIS FUTURE Kis Actual Prico the Highest on Record Progeny for English Racing AVriting to Horse and Hound Mr Martinez de IIoz about this sale to him of the great Argentine horse Botafogo says saysHe He was only once beaten and by a fluke as lie avenged his defeat a fortnight later in a match with the same horse beating him by all the lengths von want to put down it must have been by two hundred yards The horse lias been bought by me for 100000 and as tlie exowner has the right to send two mares a year to him for five Tears free of charge this means that 20000 or l liOOO iOOO more lias to be added to his purchase price The horse is already installed in the stallion boxes next to my favorite Craganour which has given me many winners among them Caricato the win ¬ ner of the 1olla de Potrillos and the Gran Ircmio Jockey Club our Two Thousand Guineas and Derby This year I have one General Haig which has been out four times and has been returned a winner on each occasion From January 1 up to date Craga nonr has one winner in the colts and five winners in the fillies I hone this year with my horse Carieato to win a great number of races as he lias summered well anil is going great guns Next month I hope he will run and win his first race in 1919 Probably you have seen in the sporting papers what a great sale Craganour had in the spring of 1018 when ten of his colts sold for about 11000 each eachThe The price paid for Botafogo by Mr Martinez de IIoz if the contingency is taken into consideration as it should be constitutes the highest price ever paid for a thoroughbred Prior to this deal the best was the 209000 Mr J 15 Joel gave for Prince Palatine which would have cost another 25000 had he been successful in the Goodwood Cup of 1913 Botafogo is now a fiveyearold chest ¬ nut son of Old Man by Orbit son of Bend Or Korea by Riieburn from Vila by Rarcaldine lie was bred at the Haras El Moro by Messrs P Lur6 Sons and was sold in 1915 to his late owner Senor IX Alvear for 10900 The colts dam Korea was bred in England by E Keylock and as a foal was sent with her dam Vila to the United States in 1902 after which she was exported to the Argentine arriving there in 1910 1910In In his letter Mi de IIoz writes that he may send or take some of the progeny of Botafogo to Kng huid for racing Bqtafogo himself is to race again at the Palermo track in Buenos Aires where racing begins August iMf A horses age in Argen ¬ tina as iu Australasia is from July 1 of each year
