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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 764, 23 September 1878, Page 4

STALLIONS thi3 m. PAPAKAIO, WAIAREKA, AND KAKANUI DISTRICTS, If sufficient inducement offers, The fashionably - bred and very superior Thorough-bred Horse i E R T O BE, Eminently suited for getting Hunters, Handsome Weight-carrying Hacks, and Horses suitable for the Indian Market. PERTOBB is a beautiful dapple brown Stallion, standing 16 hands high, Bred by H. Phillips, Esq., Victoria; in 1569. Got by Panic (imported); his dam, Hester Grazebrook, by The Premier (imported), out of Miss Napier, by DelaprS (imported) ; Miaa Napier's dam, Mrs. Roberta, by Wanderer (imported). See Victorian Stud Booh, Vol. 11, p. 4-7. Panic Tas imported from England to Tasmania, and put to the stud at 3 yrs. old. He was trained and raced at 4, and again pnt ; Jto the stud. When he was 6 yrs. old, he was "purchased at a high price and imported to -Victoria,, where ne bad two more seasons' training and racing. He proved himself th« beat English horse ever trained in Australia. He ran remarkably well, and won several races, carrying heavy weights ; he was both speedy and staying, of a most docile and cmiet tomper, with a wonderful constitution and legs like iron. Like his sire, that firstclass English racehoree Alarm, "he was never sick, sorry, or lame," and retired from the turf without a blemish. At the stud, 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 Vici toria, and for general purposes his stock is j much esteemed. j In the breeding of PERTOBE there ia a ! combination of some excellent strains of blood, such as the Waxy-Whalebone, in that famous line through Defence, and which comes to him on the sides oi 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 blood is undeniable, having furnished so many proofs, not alone aa to its being speedy and staying, but also to its 'training on,' and being essentially a ' running strain ;' for .although some others occasionally produce one or two first-class animals, few, if any, cau compete with Pantaloon as to numbers. A very grand recommendation of this strain of blood is, that it mixes successfully with, and improves, all others." Thus writes Copperthwaite, and other good turf authorities agree with him to the same effect. On the side of the dam of Pertoee there is a lot of good blood coming in through The Premier, whose grandsire, Tomboy, was by Jerry, out of the Ardrossan mare (th 6 dam of the mare Beeswing, celebrated not only as a first-class racer, but also as the maternal ancestress oi England's very best family of racehorses at the present time, viz., the Newminsters). The Delapre blood is also very good indeed. Delapr6's daw, Fortress, by Defence, was the dam of the Derby winner, Pyrrhus the First. Mrs. Roberts, the great grand-dam of Pertobe, was by Wanderer, and Wanderer's blood is good, he being by Wanderer, by Gohanna, by Mercury, by Eclipse. In Tasmania, bo much ia the Wanderer blood thought of, that they say " a bad one by Wanderer was never known," and if they can trace a pedigree to a Wanderer mare, they consider that quite sufficient. ; PERTOBE, by

Afglance at the shortly-tabulated pedigree wtfl show how thcjblood ofjthej horses mentioned comes in— ! d ., m J Venißon by Partisan Alarra J Southdown by Defence Queen o f ( Melbourne Beauty ( Birthday (Stockham's dam), by Pantaloon ( Tory Boy, by Tomboy, a son of Jerry, out of the Ardros- ' The Premier < san Mare, dam of Beeswing, etc. ( Baroness, by Leopold (sou of Camillua) \ ( Delaprd, by Bolero, out of Fortress, by Defence | Mrs. Roberta, by Wanderer. This horse was got by WanIMiss Napier ■, derer (son of Golmnna), out of Ogress, by Octavius, her dam, Thalcstris, by Alexander (son of Eclipse). Bred by Lord Kgremont, in 1826, and imported to Tasmania by Mr. llonty.

" Augur," in the Australasian, June 15th, 1878, says :—" I could fill the Australasian with the doiDgs of "Panic," and his deecendants. As a sire of good, sound, and useful stock he has never had an equal ia the Southern hemisphere. His victory in the Launceston Champion Race, and the style in which he carried 10st. into second place in the Melbourne Cup, were performances of merit, and sufficient to satisfy the most exacting that he was a racehorse of no mean order. The soundness of his stock has become a proverb on the Australian Turf, and the ancient Strop who won a race at Launceston in February, is a living example. Few horses have gone through such an ordeal as Melbourne, another son at present performing at Queensland. The greatest of ail steeplechasers is undoubtedly Lone Hand, and he is also a son of Panic. Postboy, Postman, Prodigious, and many other good cross country horses, too numerous to mention, are also descendants of the son of Alarm." Terms: L 5 ss, payable Ist of January, 1879. Groom's fee, ss, payable first 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,