... rPHE uncertain financial situa- I tion did not prevent keen bidding at the yearling sales at Ballsbridge, Dublin, and there were many English buyers at the ringside. There were several high- priced lots, and during the three days 331 yearlings sold for 181,352 guineas as compared with 341 lots for 170,783 guineas a year ago. Highest price was j 5,400 guineas paid by Mr. Atty Persse for Mr.'S. ...

... ANEARCO colt, the first lot to enter the ring, was bought by Prince Aly Khan for 14,500 guineas on the opening day of the Newmarket First October Sales. He is a grey colt out of Infra Red, dam of Magic Red, and was one of five belonging to the late Lord Portal which sold for a total of 32,300 guineas. The sales were the largest yearling auction held by Tattersalls. and the plan adopted this ...

... The Prix de PArc de Triomplie THERE is always an attraction about a race to which a great prize is attached; it is doubly attractive when the field is international. This year's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, to be run on Sunday at Longchamp, looked like being such a race, and the scratching of Nimbus, Mrs. Glenister's Derby winner, is a great disappointment. lsimDus is a gooa traveller, ana ...

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... AMERICA'S top golfers arrived on the Queen Elizabeth some eight days before the match was due to start and set about learning how to play a first-class British inland course. I am not going to write a full account of the play of the two match days, for that seems so long ago already as to have become history, but some general comments. J ne rsritisn players atter a brilliant, ana I must ...

... STANDARDISED grading was practised with complete suc cess before the war: its development is logical and in evitable as an essential factor in present-day marketing. Enlightened groups of growers are co-operatively packing their fruit, realising that a standardised product can be sold on description, thus reducing hand ling costs to a minimum; and the reduced costs invariably are accom panied ...

... By T. A. Layton UNTIL 1929 the only car my father had ever possessed or driven was a cream-and- black Austin Seven. My sister and I hated it because there was no room in the back, and my mother, because my father would tip the glossy topper he loathed to wear over the back of his head, and she was obliged to posh it up for the next day. Then an obscure relative died and left my father £231 ...

... THE 114th Annual Show organised by the Surrey Agricultural Association, held at Sulton Place, Guildford, the home of the Duke of Sutherland, the Association's President, covered 100 acres and attracted over 600 entries, an increase of some 200 on last year. The catalogue this year contained some new classes, including several for Red Polls, and the general standard was considered to be ...

... PRINCESS MARGARET WAS AT THE PERTH HEAT STEEPLECHASES One of the Most Successful Meetings Yet Held On the Scone Palace Course A group of spectators in the Club stand Miss Grizelda McCririck, Mile. Franfoise Ide, Viscount Chelsea, son and heir of Earl Cadogan, with his eldest sister Lady Sarah Cadogan, Lady Forteviot, Mrs. T. M. Burrell, Mrs. Finlay and Lord Forteviot. With the two-day meeting ...

... INDEPENDENCE DAY PARTIES IN LONDON South Americans Celebrate Cdr. Orozco Silva, Naval Attache to the Mexican Embassy executes a brilliant national dance with the Mexican Ambassadress, H.E. Sra. Jiminez CFarrill, at her Embassy party Enjoying the party are Srta. Carlota Constantino de James, Srta. Cristina Chapoy, sister of the Mexican Embassy Counsellor, and Miss Deirdre Mulcahy Count du Pare, ...

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