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• ENGLISH DECEMBER SALES ■ ♦ — Analysis of Results Shows Lower Average Than Last Year. • Foreign Buyers Play Important Role in Ring — Statistical Data on Returns. — ♦— — BT i:. K. CO! sslll. i LONDON, Baahind, December in. ror i few *~ prior to the commeueemenl of the December Bales .r Newmars ; there wss a rertsis amoual of pi -iiei-iii in British breeding circles as to the results likely to 1 1 obtsloed. Thai prices would be on a lower level was geaerslly admitted. Est mstea of the probable decline as esaspared with last years sales varied from about Id per eeal down to .Ml per Cent. Ai Newmarket last week there was quite ■ I ibei of foreign toagaei Man;, of the visit. r~ bad -.i usly come to secure bargains snd, judging by results, m : a few returned disappointed. II i- only by means of ■ careful and painstaking analysis of the salt i returns that it is possible to aacertsia the tread -f opiaion and fashions H breed-lag l ill ies. The record of last weeks sales shows thai 63 Iota, about two-thl as of the whole aamhti of the catalogue, were sold for ,279,535. The average pri e was tberefon 12.022. In 1020 an eztraonli-aary sab. resulted in ■ record total of Sl.8Til.S10 for 711 lots which rare aa average of ,682 in " conditions were again abnormal, for the aver-nge pri.e was s-.cTn. in ifi2 the average was ,825, but in 1913 ii had mounted to ,100. This yesr*« average it therefore eminently fair. Taken as a who!,, the returns this year were about •_•:! per cent lower than the December Sales »ally I estimated a reductioa of aboul 35 per cent, it was based -n the yearling eturna this summer and autumn. The for- i mpetlti ■;■ mi de all the difference. A classificattoa of the lots old at Newssarket is a most tedious undertaking, i nr the results oh- toia u arell repay the labor • atailed. Lots Aver. Animals. Soli II ■;.]. Aver. 192* B i mares L7i» .S 630.905 ,100 ,090 Id!:.- two and I olds M I;!!.!..". 1.9a5 2,205 Vearllnga 16 27.003 1.700 lit;: • ;- 101 lli.f.Tt 1,082 1,272 ! I i ses in tra inin ; • •,. two and thi »W fillieos . 133 882.025 L . 1"7 8,220 :i 7 7.I.T. 1.117 1,010 Potshi 882 81,279,533 ,022 ,082 The highest price of the week was 830,009, paid for Seine dea Peches os behalf of Mr. J. i: WW ener. A year ago Mr. John Baaford paid the top of the wet k for Archaic. The next oa the list to Seine dea Peches wen i a follows: Carina 191 1, by Chaw ei ; bn d to The Te i; sir B. Jardine 825.008 Bweel Aire 1916, by Orby; bred to Buastar; N ij * ■ L ider 16.500 Herself 1915, by Xell Gow; i 1 to Soa- in-Lnw: Sledmere Stud lti.000 Bea Moss 1917, by WiUisaa the Third; bred to Suns tar: Baron M. de Bothsehild.. 15.588 Prettj Dark 1911 i, bj D irk Boaald: bred to Son-in-Lav : Kan. a M, de Bothsehild Ij.500 ■. ■ ildiaa 1 191 » . bj Dinneford; bred to Bosh Lor : I ir 13,808 Tl -ee Soya Is 1917, bj WiUinm the Third; bred n Skyrocket; .Vn-. .!. li. Crawfood.. 12,500
