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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 761, 18 September 1878, Page 4

STALLIONS O T R AVE L PAPAKAIO, WATAREKA, AND KARANUI DISTRICTS, If sufficient inducement offers, The fashionably - bred and very superior Thorough-bred Horse -, E R T O BE, JL Eminently suited for getting Hunters, Handsome Weight-carrying Hacks, and Horses suitable for the Indian Market. PERTOBE is a beautiful dapple brown Stallion, standing 16 hands high, Bred by H. Phillips, Esq., Victoria, in 1869. Got by Panic (imported) ; his dam, Hester Grazebrook, by The Premier (imported), out of Miss Napier, by Delapre" (imported) ; Miss Napier's dam, Mrs. Roberts, by Wanderer (imported). See Victorian Stud 800/:, Vol. J!., p. 4~- Panic was imported from England to Tasmania, and put to the stud at 3 yrs. old. He was trained and raced at 4, and again put [to the stud. When he was 6 yrs. old, he was purchased at a, high price and imported to Victoria, where he had two more seasons' training. ;nid racing. He proved himself the bestEnglish horse ever trained in Australia. He ran remarkably well, and won several races, carrying heavy weights ; he wa3 both speedy and staying, of a most docile and quiet temper, with a wonderful constitution,, a Bke iron. Like his sire, that first" class English racehorse Alarm, "he was n&ver sick, sorry, or lame," and retired from the turf without a blemish. At the Btud, although from being in an out-of-the-way place, he has not been favored by many first-class mares, he has got more winners out of half-bred ones than any horse in Victoria, and ?or general purposes his stock is much esteemed. In the breeding of PERTOBE there is, a combination of some excellent strains, of blood, such as the Waxy-Whalebonvv in that famous line through Defence, and which coines to him on the sides ni both sire and dam. On his sire Panic's side there is, as well as his good Defence blood, that of the game and stout Venison, the powerful and speedy Melbourne, and, most excellent of all, that of Pantaloon. "The value of the Pantaloon bjood is undeniable,, having furnished so many proofs, not aloneas to its being so*edy and staying, but also> to its ' training on,' and being essentially a. ' running strain ;' for although some othersoccasionally produce one or two tirst-elass. aaiinals, few, if any, can compete with Pantaloon as to numbers. A very grand recommendation of this strain of blood is, that it mixes successfully with, and improves, aIE others." Thus writes Copperthwaite, and other good turf authorities agree with him. to the same effect. On the side of" the dam of Pertoise there is a lot o£ blood coining in through The Prefer, whose grandsire, Tomboy, was bj I■> erry, out of the Ardrossan mare (tbe " Augur," in the Australasian, June loth, IS7B, says :—" I could fill the Australasian with the doings of "Panic," and his descendants. As a sire of good, sound, and useful stock he has never had an equal in the Southern hemisphere. His victory in, the Launceston Champion Race, ac,d tks, style in which he carried 10st. seconcj place in the Melbourne Cup, yfere performances of merit, and sufficient to satisfy the most exacting tha t t ha was a racehorse of no mean order. The soundness of his stock hag become a proverb on the Australian Turf, and the ancient Strop who won a race s.\ Launceston in February, is a living example. Few horses have gone through such, an crdeaj as Melbourne, another son at present performing at Queensland, The greatest of all steeplechasers ia undoubtedly Lone Hand, and he is also a son of Panic. Postboy, Postman, Prodigious, and many other good cross country horses, too numerous to men-, tion, are also descendants of th<3 son 05 Alarm." Terms: L 5 ss, payable Ist of January a 1879, Groom's fee, 03, payable first service. Paddocks provided, 2s 6d per week. Every care taken, but no responsibility. For further particulars, apply to, JOHN HENDERSON, Groom in charge; or to • A. PATERSON,