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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 51, 24 January 1883, Page 1

. . Horses. ' ■ The Thoroughbred Stallion MOR;U PHEDS will travel the Palmerf'' ston, Feilding, and Sanson Dis--1 tricts this season. Il if ORPHEUS is a golden chestnut, jXl.' standing 16 hands 3 inches ; thoroughly sound iv all respects. He is 5 years old, and by that fast and wellknown horse Castaway, dam Somnambula by Towton, dam Opera by II Bar? Wrie. dam Cassandra by Priam; Tow* (Con ! by Melbourne ; Castaway by Tra* ducer, dami Mermaid. Morpheus comes from a great racing family, claiming abrne aristocratic and high^clasß per. 1 formers as his relatives. His hire won ' the Wellington Cap and ran second . for the Canterbury Derby and Great 5 : Autumn Handicap. He is full brother • to Lurline and Le Loup. The perform" ances of these animals m Kew Zealand and Australia need no . comment. Le Loup won the Canterbury J. 13. Handi- ' Hip" aneV Cup ' m 1880: • Opera; grand dam of Morpheus, won the Canterbury Derby m 1864. Tambourini was also from Opera, by Towton, and won, amongst other raceß, the Canterbury J. : C Handicap a»d Canterbury and Weir - lington Cups, besides performing sue* n&gafoHy over hurdles. Salvage by Castaway ran second for the Wellington '<3up last year, giving the winner a yeat ! «nd 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 ¥RAKK PALMER. ToTrayel ihi Season, m the Ratgitikei and Manawatu Districts, the Thoroughbred Entire ; Horse , DIOMEpES. : DIOMEDEB by Totara, dam Plover, by Sir Hercules—lor particularp Bee New Zealand Stud Book. Plover is the dam of Malvina and other winr : nera. Diomedes Btands sixteen and ahalf hands, is a rich bay with black and well suited to improve the breel; jtf horses such as are required for useful purposes. Tbbmb —Single .Mare, £i. Two or more, the bona ude „■'*''!:.'/.. property of one owner, £8 10s. | Apply to the owner a '* P .* JOHN STEVENS; :, -r- .... .\ Or the Groom m Charge. *■>■■■■■ ■■■■■ •;• '■■■■'•"■ ''"■'- — -.'■ ,/' ' " -^ — -■ To Travel this Season m the Palmerston and Manawatu Districts, • ' ' The Purebred Clydesdale ' Entire Horse PRINCE OF THB VALLEY. XjRiNCE OF THE VALEEY, by 1 X - R<iyal Conqueror out of Gipsy; by Clyde Champion (imported), out of J. Andrews' well-known mare Polly, by - : Farmer (imported), and grand dam , (imeQrjted). Royal Conqueror, a pure Clydesdale, took first; prize at Battersea as a two^year-oldj at the United !i Biliibition of the Royal Agricultural ( Society of England and the Royal Highland Society, and was therefore entitled to be regarded as the best colt m England and Scotland m his year. i He Tras selected and imported for Mr H. Redwood by the Hon. W.Robinsom Gipsy has taken two first prizes at the Richmond Agricultural Show. Prince of the Valley took first prize at the Richmond Agricultural Show for three-year-olds m 1875 > first 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 Britißh General. Prince of the Valley will be at Ash- , "Utst every Monday, Woodville Toesday, Ealmerston Wednesday, Awahuri Thursday, Jackeytown Friday, Palmereton Saturday. ' , , : ..Terms.—Single Maras, £5 10s 5 re--1 duotion two or more mares } groom&ge fee, 2s 6d. Fees payable on or before Ist February Paddocking free for three weeks. Every care taken but no responßibility, For further particulars apply to the 'Groom m charge at the Royal Hotel, i -■■'"■' TO ADVERTISERSi ADVERTISEMENTS for the daily country edition muat be left at the •office by 1 pan., and for the town edition not later than 3 p.m. Ijr # B. All advertisements appear m both town and country, editions without ■ extra charge to advertisers. fftHE Manawatu Standard' is the X only Palroerston paper that has japy circulation m Fielding or the Manchester Block, m which it has a daily Icna fide issue of over three hundred copies.