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to Persimmon which I gave on page 417, I cannot find a single name which will not 

 stand higher than that of Volodyovski, the Derby winner of 1901. American- 

 bred animals won the Oaks and the Cambridgeshire. The question of the four- 

 figure yearlings may, at least, suggest the reflections that money does not always 

 represent value, and that buyers are gradually becoming more sensible. No 

 doubt they are beginning to realise what is meant by the "cold figures." In the 

 first twenty-five winning stallions of 1901, for instance, only Galopin (now 

 dead) came under the hammer as a yearling, and he fetched 520 guineas. 



By permission of the Kt. Hon. 

 the Earl of Rosebery. 



Mr. OrcPs " Beeswing" (1833) by "Dr. Syntax." 



Again, 476 yearlings have been sold for 1,000 guineas and upwards in eighteen years, 

 and of them all Bonavista (chiefly owing to Cyllctu) has alone proved a successful 

 stallion ; and it can only be to stud successes that a purchaser must look who pays a 

 high figure for a heavily-engaged colt, and has to add to loss of interest his keep, 

 training, and riding expenses, besides stakes and forfeits, the whole making a total 

 which is more than likely to exceed the animal's prizes in his racing career. At Mr. 

 Tattersall's Newmarket December sales that same year, Longy, for whom eight 

 thousand guineas were .refused as a two-year-old, was sold for a hundred and fifty. 



