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WORLDS RECORD OF HORSE SALES TRACERYS PRICE CALCULATED ON BASIS OF OTHERS THE HIGHEST EVER PAID TWENTYFOUR TWENTYFOURHORSES HORSES AND ONE MARE SOLD FOR FORMORE MORE THAN 100000 EACH Mr August Helmonts secretary has confirmed to a representative of Daily Kacing Form in New Vorl Vorlthat that the reported price of r000 pounds for which Mr Hel nt sold Tracery to Senor Tiine of Huenos HuenosAires Aires was correct On its face this is the i st sum ever paid for a thoroughbred hors ruder a rule of The Jockey Club defining the value of foreign money units in their equivalents in dollars Tracery was sold for 2 iTiOOO That rule is primarily for use in estimating foreign winnings hit would cover related transactions such as the one under consideration The Jockey Clubs definition oi values will be in the nature of news to many and is as follows followsOne One Pound Sterling England shall be equivalent to 00 00One One Filipino Peso Philippine Islands shall be equivalent to 0 cents centsOne One Franc France shall be equivalent to 20 cents centsOIK OIK Lire Italy shall be equivalent to 20 cents centsOne One Mark Germany shall lie equivalent to 2i cents centsOne One Kouhlc Kussia shall be equivalent to cents centsOne One Crown Austria shall be equivalent to 111 cents centsOne One Peseta Spain shall be equivalent to 17 cents centsSince Since the announcement of the sale on February 2 the matter of rate of txclmngo lias been draggei into the transaction in an effort to establish that the real sum paid for tin horse was somewhere between 177000 and 1MI0 IO This may I itirely gratuitous Mr Pelmont is an international banker and andfinancier financier to whom the tluctuations of exchange values are as familiar as the letters of the alphabet and impossible of being overlooked It Is entirely reasonable to conclude that when he sold Tracery for 3000 pounds he sold him for that sum exactly without any depreciation through the unstable rating of com ¬ mercial txHitnge which changes from day loday If exchange wa really a factor its op irYitim pre ¬ sumably would be at whatever rate it was on the day when the sale was consummated consummatedAnother Another factor is in a statement in London Sportsman by Vigilant to the effect that Senor inziie is to be credited with all the stud fees for the current season This would be a considerable sum for Tracery was full this year at the big fee of 300 guineas or 1 00 00This This and the matter of exchange are known only in their truth to Mr Helmont and the buyer In the interest of accurate tnrf history Mr Pelmont will dear nfi these points of surmise some day In the meantime Daily Kacing Form will stand by the record in maintaining that the sum Tracery was sold for was 2 2iOOO iOOO For record purpi the following table of h s sold for 100000 and over was compiled from the iirtls It shows horses sold their pedign sellers countries to which thev were sold and the Horse Pedigree PedigreeItock Country Itock Sand Sainfoin Koqiiebriine by S SSt A Helmont France St Plaise Hermit Fusee by Marsya Pelmont est Inited Stati Tracery Itock Sand Topiary by Orme V Hclmont HclmontPrince Vrgentina Prince Palatine Persimmon Lady Lightfoot by Isinglass J p Joel France Flying Fox Orme Vampire by Calopiu Dof Westmi WestmiCyllene iter cstFrance Cyllene IComi Vista Arcadia by Isonomy C I Jtose JtoseDiamond Argentina Diamond Jubilee St Simon Perdita II by Hampton King Fdwar rgentina Craganour Desmond Veneration by Laveno LavenoOrmonde C P Ismay rgentina Ormonde Iteiid Or Lily Agnes by Macaroni MacaroniCyllene Senor Houcau Tnited States Cyllene Hona Vista Arcadia by Isonomy IsonomyItock C D Kose Argentina Itock Sand Sainfoin Koqncbrtine by St Simon SimonDark Sir J Miller fnsted States Dark Itonald Hay Konald Darkie by Thurio K Kennedy Germany Sceptre Persimmon Ornament by llend Or K S Sievier England Prince Palatine Persimmon Lady Lightfoot by Isinglass W H Walker WalkerYour r England Your Majesty Persimmon Yours by Melton W II Walker WalkerArd r England Ard Patrick St Florian Morganette by Springfield I Gnbbins Galtee More Kenilal Morganette by Springfield J Gubbins Lancaster John oGaunt Seadown by byDof Orvieto E II Leach England Dof Westminster Orme Gantlet by Galopin Duke of Westminster England EnglandHalsam Minoru Cyllene Mother Siegel by Halsam W H Walker Kussia Jardy Flying Fox Airs and Oraces by Ayrshire K Itinnc Argentina 1 0000 0000Argentina Val dOr Flying Fox Wandora by Hriico K Hlane HlaneHiniou Argentina MOOOO MOOOOGermany Hiniou Le Pompon HricaHrac l y St Serf M Kphrussi KphrussiOouvernant Germany 1 110000 110000Austria Oouvernant Flying Fox louvernanto by Knergy K Hlanc Austria 100000 100000Argentina Son Hi A morion Old Man Korea by Haeburn Argentina 200000
