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Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 619, 13 October 1858, Page 8

TfiFfi CELEBRATED HORSE, " TOWTON," IMPOETED "BY MR. THOMAS NEWTON, Ci*te the property of Capt. the Hon. S. Hawke. "«TOWTON," A good bay, black legs, 8 years old, stands 15 hands 2J inches high, Was got"'by Melbourne, out of Cinizella, by Touchstone; grandam Brocade, by Pantaloon, — Bombazine. _ _ MELBOURNE, The sire of Towton, was got by Humphrey Clinker, (sire of Rockingham, winner of the St. Leger, 1853) dam by Cervantes; is also sire of the following horses, Sir Tatton Sykes, winner of the 2,000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket, and Doneaster St. Leger, 1546; Cymber, winner of the Oaks, 1847; Canezou, winner of the 1,000 Guineas, and Ebor St. Leger, 1848; West Australian, winner of the 2,000 Guineas, the Derby and St. Leger, 1853 ; and Marchioness (own sister to Towton), winner of the Oaks, 1855. TOUCHSTONE, X Winner of the St. Leger, 1834), the sire of Cinizella (Towton's dam), is own brother to Launcelot, winner of the St. Leger, 1840, and sire of the following horses, Cotherstone, winner of-the 2,000 Guinea?, and Derby, 1843; Orlando, winner -of the Derby in 1844, and sire of Teddington, winner of the Derby, 1851; Mendicant, winner of the 1,009 Guineas and Oaks, 1856; Flatcatcher, winner of the Dee Stakes at Chester, and the 2,000 Guineas, 1848; Surplice, winner of the Derby and St. Leger the same year; Nunnykirk, winner of the 2,000 Guineas, 1849; and Newminster (own brother to Nunnykirk), winner of the St. Leger, 1851. PANTALOON Is sire of Ghuznee, winner of the Oaks, 1841; Satirist, winner of the St. Leger the same year ; Hernandez, winner of the 2,000 Guineas, 1851; and of Clarissa, Caricature, Elthiron, Officious, and Hobbie Noble, which was sold for the sum of 6,000 Guineas, previous to the Derby Race, and several other winners of large stakes. "TOWTON" is entirely free from blemish or disease of any kind, and, from his superior strain of blood, combining that of Columbus, Paynator, Camel, Selim, Sir Peter, Highflyer, &c,, cannot fail to give perfect satisfaction to breeders ©Tfirst-ciass horses, for power, speed, and-lasting qualities, equal to any on the British Turf. * TOWTON" WILL STAND THIS SEASON AT CHRISTCHURCH, COMMENCING IST NOVEMBEB. TERMS, 15 GUINEAS, PAYABLE ON THE Ist JANUARY, 1859. tfBOOMAOE, 19S. -+ ■ 11. ' TO STAND THIS SEASON, AT THE STABLES OF THE UNDERSIGNED, ffIHE Celebrated Thorough-Bred horse J, SKELETON. PBDIOBEK. "Young Skeleton" is a chestnut horse, branded C H near shoulder, was bred by Mr. Charles Hearr»e and was foaled in 1843, was got by the imported horse Skeleton, out of a mare by the imported horse Steeltrap, her sire the imported horse Egremont. Master Robert the sire of Skeleton was got by Buffa out of Small Hopes by Scaramouch, her dam by Blank Traveller. Buffa by Pantaloon ovit of a Herod mare. Pantaloon by Match'em out of Curiosity by Snap, Regnlus, Brutus, Childers, (vide Stud Booh, p. 409 vol. 4.; Egremont by Whalebone out of Talestres, (bred by Mr. Glossip in 1809), by Alexander, her dam Rival by Sir Peter out of Hornet by Drone. Manilla by.Goldfinder, Mr. Goodriche's Old Englaud mare, {vide Stud Booh, p. 310, vol. 4,.) (Signed) William Russell, Keeper of the Stud Book. Terms £5 and ss. Groom. N. B. Splendid Paddocks for receiving Mares. JAMES RULE, Caveibham House. 13 September, 1858. TO COVER THIS SEASON, AND TO BE AT THE " WHITE HABT," The Magnificent pure bred Draught Horse "WESTMINSTER." PEDIGREE:— This celebrated Horse, imported by J. W. Moorhouse, Esq., of the Royal Veterinary College, was got by Conqueboe, a pure bred Clydesdale, and out of Diana, the best bred Suffolk mare in England; grand-dam by Euphrates, great granddam Old Smolensko, who realized by private contract the sum of £2,350. WESTMINSTER is a four-year-old, dark iron grey, stands 17 hands high, on short legs, and ia allowed by competent judges to be the finest draught Horse ever imported into the Southern Hemisphere/ ' Teems r-^Mares 5 guineas each, and sb. to the Groom. The Groom's fee to .be. paid at the time of covering. '^Wellington, Aug.'B, 1858.