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I I Over-All Spa Sales Average ,350 Sum of 60,400 For Knight Group Collins Bids In Heliopolis . Colt for 7,500; Market Strong at Closing Vendue By HUGH J. McGUIRE Staff Correspondent SARATOGA, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Aug. 15. The 33rd annual sale of yearlings by the Fasig-Tipton Company at this upstate Spa concluded on a strong note Friday night when the entire session was given over to the consignment of Henry H. Knights Almahurst Farm of Nicholasville, Ky. This group of 28 colts and 18 fillies paraded under the hammer of auctioneer George Swinebroad, who cried the entire session, and at the end the 46 youngsters realized 60,400 for an average of 2,183. Last year Knight sold 47 head for 82,700 to average 4,526. The five nightly sessions this year saw 247 head change ownership for ,062,500, an average of ,350. In 1952 a total of 332 head fetched ,095,500 to average ,312. The success is obvious of the new policy of the company which reduced from seven to five the number of sales sessions and featured fewer yearlings with greater appeal. There were 85 more yearlings sold last year yet the gross receipts this week were only 3,000 less than a year ago while the average soared from ,312 to ,350. The result and the wisdom of this policy is clearly seen in that during the first and last sessions in 1952 the averages were ,831 and 1,162, respectively. War Admiral Colt Brings 3,000 High price realized on Knights night was the 7,500 bid by I. J. Collins of Lancaster, Ohio, for a dark bay son of Heliopolis from the Arlington Lassie winner Theen. This fell short by ,500 of reaching the high for the entire sale, the 9,000 paid by Nydrie Stud for a daughter of Bois Roussel consigned by the Aga Khan. Arthur Godfrey " paid 8,500 for Brookmeades colt by Case Ace Dutch Cut at the Tuesday session. Collins also secured a filly by Rippey Elpis for 6,000 earlier in Fridays sale. Another prominent Ohioan in the limelight was Chester Gates, farm manager of the Darby Dan Farms of John Galbreath at Galloway, Ohio and Lexington, Ky., who went to 3,-000 for a son of War Admiral Rockabye, and to 8,000 for a daughter of Roman Sun Blest. Bidding began briskly with the first offering, a beautifully molded son of Priam H. Aphaona for whom Frank Podesta, acting as agent, paid 5,000. This colt was followed by a gray daughter of Mahmoud Arbitrator who brought 2,000 on the bid of Brae Burn. Farm. Later on in the sale, Russell Reineman, brother of Howard Reineman, of Lexingtons Crown Crest Farm, paid a similar sum for a gray son of Nirgal Topsy. Greentree Stud secured a son of Priam n. Say Blue for 0,000 and these were the yearlings sold for or above that figure. - -Following the lively opening of the sale, bidding began to lag and was enlivened only intermittently when one. of the more desirable offerings entered the ring. It was about at the half-way mark that new interest I. J. COLLINS Paid top price of 7,500 for the Heliopolis-Theen colt in the Almahurst Farm consignment. could be felt coming from bidders and from that point until very near the end, the market remained solid. In four sales sessions at Keeneland this year, 302 yearlings were sold for ,943,400 to record an average of ,746. A summary of the Friday sales follows : Consigned by Almahurst Farm Bay colt, by Priam II. Aphaona.. F. C. Podesta, Agent . . 5,000 Gray filly, by Mahmoud Arbitrator Brae Burn Farm . . 22,000 Bay filly, by Attention Arisbi H. S. Finney, Agent 10,000 Bay filly, by Cosmic Bomb Ballita Linda Farm 3,300 Chestnut colt, by Goya n. Bramble Bug Harborvale Stable 4,700 Dark bay filly, by Mahmoud Bride Cake -. J. P. Jones, Agent 14,000 Dark bay colt, by Priam n. Challa- dette Walter D. Fletcher and John C. Lawrence 8,500 Bay filly, by Nirgal Drop Dead H. F. Krimendahl 6,500 Bay filly, by Rippey Elpis I. J. Collins . i . 16,000 Chestnut colt, by Rippey Floragina C. E. Houchin 11,000 Bay filly, by War Relic Furtive G.K.Murdoch 4,300 Light bay colt, by Goya "II. Gala-gay Albert P. Mergirdt 5,500 Chestnut filly, by Djeddah -Gino Patty J. C. Pollard 5,000 Bay colt, by Cosmic Bomb Goose Cry W. A. Kelley, Agent 10,100 Chestnut- colt, by Rippey Grey Shot Thomas M. Waller, Agent .... 8,700 Bay colt, by Goya H. Grindelia. . - N. Martini 7,200 Bay colt, by War Jeep Historical William Ziegler, Jr. 8,000 Dark bay colt, by Priam II. Hollyhock G.F.Strickland 6,500 Bay colt, by Cosmic Bomb Macla. . C. W. Shaw, Jr., Agent . . 7,800 Dark bay colt, by Ardan Marcel- lina Carol Dehavenon 7,300 Chestnut colt, by Djeddah Miss Brief Carr Hatch 17,000 Bay colt, by Djeddah Miss Drum- mond Mrs. Edward S. Moore ....... 15,500 Bay filly, by Attention Miss Kimo Adele L. Rand 13,500 Dark bay colt, by Better Self Mon- daine F. C. Rand, Jr. 14,000 Bay colt, by Fighting Fox Not Asleep G. K. Murdoch 8,700 Bay colt, by Cosmic Bomb Pamela C Greentree Stud 13,000 Chestnut colt, by Rippey Rhodian J. Stillman, Agent 6,000 Dark bay colt, by War Admiral Rockabye Chester Gates, Agent 33,000 Bay filly, by Nirgal Rule All .... S. G. Zauderer 4,800 Bay colt, by Priam n. Say Blue. . Greentree Stud 20,000 Chestnut colt, by Eight Thirty-Short Snorter Foxcatcher Farm 14,500 Gray colt, by Phalanx Singing Top Samuel A. Peck 12,500 Bay filly by Cosmic Bomb Sixty-minutes .W. A. Kelley, Agent 7,500 Djeddahs First, b. c, by Djeddah Smiling Thru D. J. Gleeson 6,500 Bay filly, by Roman Sun-Blest. . . Chester Gates, Agent 28,000 Bay colt, by Unbreakable Sun Dancer Morris H. Dixon, Agent . ..... 11,000 Dark bay colt, by Heliopolis Theen I. J. Collins 37,500 Bay colt, by Heliopolis Theia. . . . Josephine Abercrombie 18,500 Chestnut filly, by Djeddah Tokah- nan J. McGee 6,500 Gray colt, by Nirgal Topsy R. L. Reineman 22,000 Chestnut filly, by Rippey TJ-Boat Alfred G. Vanderbilt 17,500 Chestnut filly, by Djeddah Val- dina Gal C. E. Houchin 5,000 Chestnut filly, by War Relic Val- dina Lark H. F. Krimendahl 17,000 Bay colt, by Nirgal War Spiral. . Thomas A. Rankin 6,000 Brown filly, by Nirgal Wise Ally. . Mohtpelier 8,500 Bay filly, by Nirgal Wood Spirit. . L. S. MacPhail 5,000 Totals: 46 head for 60,400; average per head, 2,183. Total for sale: 247 head for ,062,500; average per head, ,350.
