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The brother of this colt sold for $500,000 at a yearling sale a few years ago so she could be worth up to a quarter of a million at next year's sales.(...)
The brother of this colt sold for $500,000 at a yearling sale a few years ago so she could be worth up to a quarter of a million at next year's sales.(...)

The brother of this colt sold for $500,000 at a yearling sale a few years ago so she could be worth up to a quarter of a million at next year's sales.(...)

Date8/11/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: The brother of this colt sold for $500;000 at a yearling sale a few years ago so she could be worth up to a quarter of a million at next year's sales. she's one of the showpieces on a tour of Lexington horse farms.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0118283F
Big plans: Bob Collins-Wright, president of Inglis, says his company will invest $60 million over the next five years and hire an additional 1,000 workers. He predicts his expanded firm will capture 35-to-40 per cent of all appliance sales in Canada this year.
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10/31/1986
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5/10/1992
Brian Doe, 29-year-old Briton, heads the British Ever Ready Co.'s assault on the Canadian battery market - estimated at $40 million a year. Doe, backed by a hefty advertising budget, hopes to capture 25 percent of battery sales in this country within five years. Growth rate in demand is about 8 per cent annually.
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2/8/1990
Lively yearling colt, Centenarian, bought by Chester Everett Pickering this year at the age of 101, gets some exercise with groom Patrick Forshaw at t(...)
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