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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 766, 25 September 1878, Page 4

STALLiONS ■'"' PAPAKAIO, WAIARKKA, AND KARANUI DISTRICTS, If sufficient inducement offers, The fashionably - bred and very superior Thorough-bred Horse T& E R T O BE, dncntly suited for getting Hunters' I nuiKisome Weight-carrying Hacks, and Horses suitable for the Indian Mark of

PKETOBK is a beautiful dapple brown Stallion, standing 16 hands high, Bred by H. Phillips, Esq., Victoria, in IS6II. Got by Panic (imported); his dam. Hester Grazebrook, by The Premier (imported), out of Miss Napier, by DelaprcS (importedj : Miss Napier's dam, Mrs. Roberts, by Wanderer (imported).— See Victorian Stud Book, Vol. 11., p. 47. 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, lie was purchased at a high .price and imported to Victoria, where he had two more seasons' training and racing. He proved himself the best ' Knglish horse ever trained in Australia. I He ran remarkably well, and won several races, carrying heavy weights ; he was both speedy and staying, of a most docile and quiet temper, with a wonderful constitution, and legs like iron. Like his sire, that firstclass Jinglis'i racehorse 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 tirst-class mares, he has got more winners out of half-bred ones than any horse in Victoria, and for geueial purposes his stock is much esteemed.

In the breeding of PERTOBE there is a • ■ombiuation 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 of both sire and dam. Ou his sire Panic's aide 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 as to its being speedy and staying, but also 1.1 its ' training on," and being essentially a • running strain ;' for although some others occasionally produce one or two iirst-claf.s animal.-:, 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, oil others." Thus \vrite3 Oopperthwaite, f ;mii other good turf authorities agree with hun to the .same effect. On the side of the dam of Pkktoi-.k there is a lot 01 good blond coming in through The Preli.ier, whose graudsire, Tomboy, was by Jerry, out of the Ardrossan mare (the dam o! the mare Beeswing, celebrated not only as a first-class racer, hut also as the maternal ancestress of England's very best family of racehorses at the present time, viz., the Newminsters). The Delapre blood is also very good indeed. Delapre's dam. Fortress, by Defence, was the dam of the Derby winner, Pyrrhus the First. Mrs. Koberts, the great grand-dam of Pertobk, was by Wanderer, and Wanderer's blood is good, lie being by Wanderer, by Gohanna, by Mercury, by Eclipse, la Tasmania, so much is 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

" Augur," in the Australasian, ,)une loth IS7S, says :"I could fill the Australasian with the doings of " Panic," and hia descendants. As a sire of good, sound, and useful stock he lias never had an equal is the .Southern hemisphere. Hia victor}' iu the Laiineoaton Champion Race, and the style in which he carried lOst. into second place in the Melbourne Cup, were performances of merit, aud sufficient to satisfy the most exacting that he was a racehorse of no mean order. The soundness of his stock has Income a proverb on the Australian Tur;, and the ancient Strop who won a raca a', Lauuceatou in February, is a living example. Few horses have gone through such an ordeai as Melbourne, another son at present performing at Queensland. The greatest oi aii steeplechasers is undoubtedly Lone Hand, and he is also a sou of Panic. Postboy, IV.stmun, Prodigious, and many other good cross country horses, too numerous to mention, are also descendants of the sou of Alarm."

I crms : L 5 ss, payable Ist of January, 1879. Groom's fee, 03, payable iirst service. Paddocks provided, 2s 6d per week. Every care taken, but no respoi For further particulars, apply to JOHX HENDERSON, Groom in charge ; or to A. PATERSON,