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£13,650 FOR SON OF BAHRAM
Mr. J. V. Rank's Purchase
Mr. James V. Rank, who won the St. Loper Stakes at Doncaster paid with Scottish Union, has 13,000 guineas at the Doncaster Bloodstock Sales for a yearling colt by: Bahram, from Trustful..
triple Bahram, who won the
the Two the Dorby, orown -
St. Thousand Guineas and the
un- Logor in 1935, retired beaten. The highest price given for a yearling at auction was the Hon. 15,000 guineas by the Dorothy Paget for Colonel Payne, a colt by Fairway-Golden Hair, at the Doncaster Sales tivo years ago.
THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 6; 1988.
PASSING OF THE VIENNA JOCKEY CLUB
Vienna, September 9. crats of Imperial Austria and most The passing of the Vienna Jockey of the diplomats accredited to Club, which has been closed by the Vienna were members. The club Nazi authorities, will be regretted never opened its doors to the many. by all who ever-enjoyed its hospi-nouveau riches who became pro tality. The oldest and most ex-minent on the Vienna Turf after clusive of Vienna's clubs, it oc- the war. :
Count Ferdinand Colloredo, a cupied a palatial building opposite the Albertini Gallery, a stone's former landowner who was a well- known social figure in Vienna, was throw from the Opera-square.
During the last few years the its last president. With the dis- Jockey Club's sporting proclivities solution of the foreign Legations greatly diminished and it became in Vienna.and the confiscation of a purely social centre. Recently many big properties; the club lost control was vested in another club, its social significance. The Building the Kampagne Reiter Gesellschaft. may; be turned into a Nazi social|
Almost all the prominent aristocentre:
CASE OF W. I HOPKIN
Much to the disappointment of Welsh Rugby supporters, W. H. Hopkin, the former Newport and Welsh international three-quarter, failed in an application for rein- statement as an amateur.
Hopkin, who appeared before a meeting of the Welsh R.U. last night, was deemed “a professional last season when it was alleged that 'ho infringedi amateur laws by negotiating with a Rugby League scout. Hopkin's application was backed by a petition signed by Mrs. H Hart (Mayor of New- port) and over 2,000, townspeople. After the meeting the only state- ment the committee would make
we have decided not to re- open the matter.”.
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