The Archive · 1937

LADY YULE SELLING HER RACEHORSES

Richest Woman in England Has Horses' Rest Home London, Nov. 28.

Lacy Yule, richest woman in England, has told Reuter that her race-horses in training are to be disposed of at Newmarket December Sales. ich is near of the fillies y be sent here One of her hom she be: n for £100 guinea present numbering fourteen, are trained by J.H.S. Cannon at Ballaton Lodge, Newmarket, which she bought in 1932. It is prob-the most picturesque racing ment in the country. The nce and stables are set amidst and spacious flower beds. It is one of the sights which visitors to Newmarket make a point of inspecting.

Lady Yule's colours were registered in 1 and although she has never had a really good horse, she n many races. r devotion to animals is well vu. Her estate at St. Albans is actuary for animals of all kinds end also maintains a rest hom for old horses.

Lady Yule is the widow of Sir id Yule, who left her a fortune ated at £20,000,000.—Reuter. scme enthusi at Birmingham, who. had vision, saw no reason why the appeal should not be enlarged, and they organized another show in the same year that took in more breeds. Still more were catered for in tha following year, when 267 exhibits were present. To-day a show of these proportions would be looked upon as insigniticant, but the idea was so novel that a London illustrated paper gave ches and a long account, in hich tha writer suggested that the cogs ought to have been on raised benches instead of the ground, for

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