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lings sold during the seven years ending with 

 1890 



The price oi 1889, it may be mentioned 

 before going further, was 4,000 gs., paid by 

 Colonel North for a colt by St. Simon, out of 

 Garonne. Four colts by St. Simon changed 

 hands at the very excellent average of 2,150 gs., 

 but the distinction of yielding the highest average 

 belongs to Isonomy, five colts of that celebrated 

 sire fetching the splendid total of 1 1,880 gs. 



Giving precedence to " Her Majesty's year- 

 lings," we find that a lot of twenty-seven came 

 to the hammer, three of which changed hands for 

 5,000 gs,, one of the number, according to " Ruff," 

 passing to Colonel North at a cost of 3,000 gs., 

 a brown colt by Hampton, out of Landend. In 

 the same lot was a chestnut colt by Bend Or, 

 which brought only a hundred short of these 

 figures, and there was a Springfield, which brought 

 50 gs. more than the Bend Or yearling ; other 

 four passed out of the Royal paddocks at Bushey 

 Park for 1,640 gs., so that Her Majesty's breeding 

 establishment must, in 1889, have earned such 

 a handsome profit, as may help to reconcile 

 Parliamentary economists to the continuance of 

 the Royal Stud. 



Coming now to individual sires, the figures 

 show that Hermit, or, at all events, Blankney, 



