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ASTONISHING SELLING RACE "RAISES" There has been much action out of English, selling races this season. Horses are scarce there and money plentiful for likely winners. At Windsor Horatio Bottomleys Hard Bake, by Sir Martin-Almond Rock, won a ,125 selling race and was entered at 50. Bottomley, who is a contentious politician of stormy action, had to pay ,500 to retain Hard Bake. At Newmarket a month later his Idyl, by Fairy King Neddu, was in another Belling race at ,000 and won it. Bottomley had to bid 1919.sh,250 to keep Idyl. At the same meeting Sir William Cooke entered his Radium Estella colt in a selling race at 00. The colt won and had to be bought in at 1919.sh,750. Such "raises" never occur in this country. In England they are regarded as part of the days racing doings, and no I sensational stuff about "halter mans raids" or "selling race wars" uppear lu tfie newspaper re- i
