Mr. M. H. Benson's Nearco
... Stallions of the Year No. 3 lV/TR. MARTIN BENSON created a stir in breeding circles when he announced, a year ago, that he had paid the record price of £60,000 for the Italian-bred Grand Prix winner. The transaction was concluded as a result of a 15-minutes' telephone call to Paris. Nearco, who was bred by Signor Tesio, ran fourteen times and was unbeaten. In his thirteen starts in Italy he ...