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i ENGLAND PAYING BIG PRICES Seven Horses Sold for 00,000 Total at Rutherford Sale at Tat-tersalls Park, Newmarket. Special Correspondence. LONDON, England.— When the horses in n training owned by the late Sir John Rutherford i- came up for sale at Tattersalls Park k Paddocks, Newmarket, a large and distinguished i- gathering was congregated around d the ring and keen bidding was forthcoming, l- as the seven horses offered brought it more than 00,000. Top price of the sale e was 3,000, paid by trainer Frank Butters, 1 acting for Sir Alfred Butt, for the high-class IS colt Orpen, runner-up in the Derby and St. t. Leger last season. Orpen, a bay son of Solario, from Harpy, f* by Swynford, from Flaming Vixen, by Flying £ Fox, last year won the Union Jack 2 Stakes, Liverpool; Hardwicke Stakes, Ascot " and St. George Stakes, Liverpool, and finished third in the Two Thousand Guineas J and John Porter Stakes. He is engaged in " all this seasons cup races, and other valuable stakes, and may prove a bargain, n, though the day of big prices is past. Next best price was 2,500, paid by trainer 1- Joe Lawson, for Raymond, a bay two-year-old son of Gainsborough, from Nipisi-quit, :i- by Buchan, out of Herself, by Neil ■il Gow. This colt cost ,000 as a foal, and d will continue to be trained at Manton. Fairyland, a two-year-old half-sister to Orpen r- that cost 8,000 at the Doncaster Sales es last September, went to Miss Dorothy W Paget. For the daughter of Colorado and id Harpy she paid 4,000, a price at which this is filly, if only for stud purposes, cannot be 3e accounted dear. The British Bloodstock Agency went to to 2,500 to gain possession of Earlston, a two-year-old brother to Andrea, a brown colt by Solario, from Persuasion, by Roi Herod e, from Flash of Steel, by Royal Realm, from Flaming Vixen. For the promising three-year-old colt Andrea, a maiden to date, trainer Jack L. Jarvis, acting for the Duke of Marlborough, paid 1,000. The bay son of Solario and Persuasion will be trained for future engagements by Captain Percy Whittaker at Newmarket. Spreckle, a maiden three-year-old brown filly by Solario, from Postmark, by Friar Marcus, from Post Haste, by William the Third, was purchased for ,750 by Sir F. — Freake, while T. Carr paid ,550 for St. it. Boswells, a chestnut maiden three-year-old td son of Solario, from Mopsa, by Valens, from m Motor, by the gray sire Nabot. Spreckle and Earlston, like Raymond, will ill remain in the care of Joe Lawson, who to trained the horses of the late Sir John in Rutherford at Manton. The seven lots offered by the executors of of the late Sir John Rutherford brought a total al of 01,300, an average of 4,471, proving lg again that there is still money in the English g- bloodstock market, when the better class ss horses come up for sale.
