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maintained a good place, although his average 

 exhibited a great falling-off when compared with 

 some former years. It, however, reached 921 gs. 

 for each of six yearlings, which is better than the 

 return shown in the previous year, which gave an 

 average of 700 gs. for five. One yearling, by 

 Hermit or Galopin, is put down in the list of sales 

 as having brought a sum of 1,950 gs. sterling. 

 One prolific sire is credited with an average of 

 464 gs., for sixteen yearlings : St. Gatien, the 

 property of Mr. John Hammond, contributed two 

 of his "get" to the year's sales, at the price of 

 910 gs., a fair commencement. The Springfields 

 (seven) changed hands at good quotations, making 

 an average of 443 gs. Zenophon has five yearlings 

 to his credit, and Wisdom double that number. 

 The average of the latter horse's yearlings was 

 801 gs., and of those of the former 504 gs. 

 respectively. 



The highest price obtained has been stated 

 above, 4,000 gs., the lowest may now be chronicled; 

 it was 8 gs. for a foal by Savoyard out of Bohemian 

 Girl. The heaviest individual buyer of yearlings 

 throughout the season, and other blood stock, was 

 Colonel North, who would require to write a big 

 cheque in order to square his account. As is 

 shown by the table, the sales have been very good 

 both as regards individual prices, and the average, 

 which as can be seen is more than double that 

 of the year 1888, and considerably above that of 

 1884, which was thought excellent at the time. 

 Six of the lots brought to the hammer in 1890 

 realised averages of from .:^445 to ;^928. Mr. 

 Snarry's three produced the splendid return of 

 LZ^IT^', one of his, indeed, topped the list in 1888, 



