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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 33, 4 January 1883, Page 1

Horses. jjfehe Thoroughbred Stallion MOR**T PHEUS Vnll travel the Palmer!)U "' Bton, Feilding, and Sansou Distrusts this season. MORPHEUS is a golden chestnut, standing 16 hands 3 inches; 'thoroughly sound m all respects. He is 5 years old, and by that fast and wellknown horse Castaway, dam Somnambula by Towton, dam Opera by II Bar.bade, dam Cassandra by Priam ; Towton by Melbourne ; Castaway- by Tra« ducer, dam Mermaid. Morpheus comes from a great racing family, claiming taome aristocratic and high-class per» [formers as his relatives. His sire won the Wellington Cup and ran second for the Canterbury Derby and Great Autumn Handicap. He is full brother to Lurline and Le Loup. The perform* •aces of these animals m New Zealand and Australia need no comment. Le Loup won the Canterbury J. C. Handicap and €up m 1880. Opera, grand dam of Morpheus, won the Canterbury Derby m 1864. Tambourini was also from Opera, by Towton, and won, Amongst other races, the Canterbury J. C. Handicap and Canterbury and Wei" iingtoniGupSt besides performing suo cessfully .over hurdles. Salvage by Castaway ran second, for the Wellington Cup last year, giving the winner a year and a pound. /Won the Great Autumn •Handicap at Christchurch, and is nominated for the Melbourne Cup. ' Terms, -£5, and 5s groomage fee. .-For further particulars apply to k : ; FRANK PALMER. Ib^TraVeltM Season, m the Rangitikei and Manawatu Districts, the Thoroughbred Entire . Horse DIOMEDES. BIOMEDES by Totara, dam Plover, ;! ty Sir Hercules— For particulars pee New Zealand Stud Book. Plover 18 Jthe dam ojf Malvina and other winners. Dipmedes. stands sixteen and analf hands, is a rich bay with black points, and well suited to improve the brfeei of horses such to are required for useful purposes; Tbbms ■ — Single Mare, £4. , : . " Two or more, the bona fide property of one" owner, £8 10s. Apply to the owner 1T ; JOHN STEVENS; '.'._ > Or the Groom m Charge. , To Travel this Season m the Palmergton and Manawatu Districts, r> ' ' The Purebred Clydesdale f^r -•■■■■ Entire Horse WKINCE OF THE VALLEY. T)RiN6E OF THE VALLEY, by X Royal Conqueror out of Gipsy, by Clyde Champion (imported), out of J. Andrews' well-known mare Polly, by Farmer (imported), and grand dam (imported). Royal Conqueror, a pure Cfydesdiale, took first prize at Batter, sea as a two-year-old, at the United Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural Society of England and the Royal Highland Society, and was therefore entitled to be regarded as the best colt in' England and Scotland m his year. He was selected and imported for Mr H." Redwood by the Hon. W. Robinson. Gipsy, has taken two first prizes at the Richmond Agricultural Show. Prince of the Valley took first prize at'the Richmond Agricultural Show for thre^-year-olds m 1875 > firßt prize for provincial bred m 1876, first prize for provincial bred m 1877, and also first prize against all comers, beating the imported horses Sir Walter Scott and British General. < Prince of the Valley will be at Ashufst every Monday, Woodville Tuesday^ Palmerston Wednesday, Awahuri Thursday, Jackeytown Friday, PalmerstgfcSaturday. Single Mares, £3 10s ; re" duction two or more mares j groomage fee, 2s 6d. Fees payable on or before Ist February Paddocking free for three weeks. Every care taken but no responsibility. For further particulars apply to the Groom m charge at the Royal Hotel. TO ADVERTISERS. ADVERTISEMENTS for the daily •*V country edition must be left at the office by 1 p.m., and for the town edition not later than 3 p.m. N3.— Atl advertisements appear m boftrtown and, country editions without extra charge to advertisers. THE Mawawatu Standabd is the only Paln>9rston paper that has any circulation m Fielding or the Manchester Block, m which it has a daily lona fide issue of over three hundred copies,