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ROYAL QUEST A VALUABLE FILLY Meanwhile the demand for this The Tetrardi line of blood is becoming world-wide, and only last week I had a cable from the States asking whether Sarchcdon. could be bought. Almost needless to say, lie cannot. And so we go on toward the Don-caster sales with an evergrowing prospect of mammoth prices, which ia the case of The Tetrarchs stock may soar to empyrean records. It seems strange indeed that in the spring of 1917 I was suffered to buy at auction a beautiful thrcc-year-old sister to Tlie Tetrarch, sound and in training, for 1,500 guineas to go to America. Still more strange, when the stud to which she was sent was shortly afterward dispersed she made only 1,000 guineas at the sale; but now Mr. Willis Sharpe Kilmer, who then secured her, will not part with her at any price. What would she make at the December sales in England if she were in foal to let us say Sunstar?- it cannot be said that there was any valid excuse for English buyers letting her go so cheaply in the first instance only two years ago for the fame of The Tetrarch was well known, and tlie filly- herself was so good looking that Mr. Tattersall himself was astonished when he knocked her down for so little as 1,500 guineas. I had been cabled a commission to buy her up to 2,000 guineas, and after seeing her and having her passed by Mr. Leach, replied asking for an increased limit up to 3,000 guineas. The answer was this: "Buy at discretion," and I fully expected that 3,000 guineas at least would have to be given; but, as already stated, I secured her for half that sum, much to my own astonishment. She would be worth 10,000 guineas in this country now. W. Allison in Loudon Sportsman.
