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EXAMPLE IN LOW HORSE PRICES AVhat in the world are the horse folks of this country thinking of? Just imagine anyone having the temerity to enter so Well-bred a filly as Play-cany, winner of the second Belmont Park race on Friday, to ba sold for ,500. Of course, Playcariy was run up, but only to ,425, being sold to "Mr. B. A. Lane, who indeed has secured a bargain, for she is certainly worth four times that amount for paddock use "alone. AVhat with yearlings selling in England for upward of 0,000. Playcany is bred, as is the champion Man o AVar, by Fair Play from a Rock Sand mare. Fair Play now stands easily first in the winning sire list and Rock Sand, sire of Tuscany, Playcanys dam, runs Meddler a close second for brood mare .sire honors and Tuscany is from Toscana, sister to "that great race mare La Tosca, dani of ChuctnnUnda and Caughnawaga, by the Derby winner St. Blaise, from Toueques, by Monarque. Apparently it is a hopeless job to attempt to teach turfmen the value of blood lines, for here is a filly well bred enough in every respect to breed the winner of a Futurity, Realization, Epsom Derby, Grand Prix or an Ascot Gold Cup.
