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NEWMARKET SALES SUCCESS Figures Show Average Only Ten Per Cent Below That of 1921 Total Realized on 619 Horses Was 1180115 Absence of French Bayers Chief Contributing Cause of Decline BY E E COUSSELL LONDON England December 15 The Newmarket December sales of 1922 opened with a depressed feeling but as the week progressed there was a different atmosphere Everyone was prepared for a reduction of twenty to twentyfive per cent in the average price of 52020 realized for 632 lots in 192L During five days last weak 649 animals were sold for 1180445 an average of 183250 The reduction in the average price was therefore just about ten per cent I Few animals were bought for Prance but some difference was made to the sale by the unexpected appearance of M Stolpe buying j stallions or potential stallions on behalf of the Polish government Sixteen horses were j bought for 53000 I learned during the j week that Poland at present only has 35000 horses as compared with 165000 seven years ago agoP P T Chinn bought fifteen colt foals and twelve mares and horses in training The writer acting on behalf of A B Hancock E R Bradley L and B Combs and W J Salman also bought a number of animals Mr Salmons brood mares will remain in England but all the other horses bought for the United States last week will be shipped by the Messaba from London tomorrow tomorrowPA3IFLETA PA3IFLETA HIGHEST PRICED MARE MAREThe The highest priced mare of the week was bought by Lord Woolavington This was Pamfleta an eightyearold by William III tracing to the dam of Phalaris She is in foal to Tetratema Her price was 30500 30500One One or two American breeders were after Lord Derbys mare Glaciate which ran third in the One Thousand Guineas and is half sister to Silurian second in the St Leger this year American breeders however were somewhat under the mark the mare was sold for 22000 22000A A handsome mare named Maglona which is six years old by Fugleman and in foal to The Tetrarch made 20000 Twelve other mares made prices ranging from 10000 to 17500 There always seems to be money for highclass blood stock especially mares though two or three years ago such matrons of this character were selling for twice as much muchThe The top price of the week was 36500 paid for the stallion Prince Galahad which will greatly interest American breeders He is a son of Prince Palatine and Decagone whose grand dam High Feather was bred in the United States and is a daughter of Henry of Navarre Prince Galahad was bought for 36500 by J H H Peard and the horse has gone to the Greenfields Stud Tippcrary to replace Charles OMalley which died earlier in the year yearWilliam William Clark partner of the late Lionel Robinson who bred the horse still has an interest in him Mr Peard tried to buy Prince Galahad last March when Charles OMalley died for 50000 The offer could not then be accepted on account of the book ¬ ings to the horse for 1922 He is a fine hand ¬ some horse and was a highclass racer racerA A few days before the Two Thousand Guineas in 1920 he was tried with his stable companion Tetratema and beat him with Continued on twelfth page NEWMARKET SALES SUCCESS SUCCESSContinued Continued from first page the greatest ease Before the race the prince met with an accident and could not run Tretratema won the Two Thousand Guineas from a good field fieldThere There was the usual strong demand for foals the best price paid being 10000 for a filly by Swynford Dittany which was bought for the Buckland Stud This was a high price for a filly whose fore pasterns were distinctly straight A nice colt by Phalaris Misfit made 7753 and a good colt by Hurry On Helen of Troy was bought by the National Stud for 5000 No doubt he will come up next year in the National Studs yearlings Captain Grcer the man ¬ ager was compelled to buy some good colts to make up the studs average of yearlings because in 1922 he had fifteen niares barren to Royal Realm RealmA A big fine gray colt one of the first foals by Grey Fox II Mary Queen of Scots was bought for 2500 by Mr Chinn The writer bought a particularly nice filly foal by Stefan the Great Isabeau which was bred by the late Lionel Robinson She is going to the Belair Stud Maryland MarylandThere There was a good attendance all the week and the weather was particularly fine for December All the same the absence of continental competition was felt Last year French breeders spent about 150000 this year their total purchases did not come to onesixth of that amount It is not only the animals which they bought but the others on which they bid which helped the market
