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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 770, 11 October 1878, Page 4

STALLIONS T 0 T P. A j PAPAKAIO, WAIAREKA, AND KAKAj NUI DISTRICTS, j "if sutiicient inducement, offers, i The fashionably - bred and very 9uporiop j Thorough-bred Horse IT> E R T 0 B E, Eminently suited for getting Hunters, I 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); hiß dam, Hester Grazebrook, by The Premier (imported), out of Mis 3 Napier, by Delapr6 (imported) ; Miss Napier's dam, Mrs. Roberts, by Wanderer (imported).— See Victorian Stud Booh, Vol. 11., -p. 47. Panic was imported from England to Tasmania, and put to the stud at 3 yr3. 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 and racing. He proved himself the best 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 quiet temper, with a wonderful constitution, and legs like iron. like his sire, that firstclass English 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 first-class mares, he has got more winners out of half-bred ones than any horse in Vicj U>i'ia, 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 I blood, such as the Waxy-Whalebone, in that famous Hue through Defence, and which comes to him on the sides of both sire and dam. On his tare 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 as to its beiug speedy and staying, but also ! to its 'training on,' and being essentially a j ' running strain ;' for although some others i occasionally produce one or two first-class i animals, few, if any, can compete with j Pantaloon as to numlwrs. A very grand reI commendation of this strain of blood is, that i it mixes successfully with, and improves, all J others." Thus writes Copperthwaite, and j other good turf authorities agree with him to the same effect. On the side of the dam of Pertoke there is a lot ot good blood coming in through The Premier, whose graudsire, Tomboy, was by Jerry, out of the Ardrossan mare (th» dam of the mare P.eeswing, celebrated j not only as a first-class racer, but J also as the maternal ancestress of England's 1 very bfst family of racehorses at the present | time, viz., the Newminsters). The Dalaprrt i blood is also vr-ry good indeed. Delapr.-'s i dam, F.irtvess, by Defence, was the dam of the Derby winner, Pyrrhus the First. Mrs, Roberts, the great grand-dam of Pi:i-.touk, was by Wanderer, and Wanderer's blood is good, he being by Wanderer, by Gohanna, by Mercury, by Eclipse. In Tasmania, so much is the Wanderer blood thought of. • tluit they say ••' a bad one by Wanderer was j never known/' and if they can trace a pedii gree to a Wanderer mare, they consider that ; quite sufficient, PERTOBE, by "Augur," in the Australasian, June 15th, IS7B, says :—" I could rill 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 ia the .Southern hemisphere. Hiß victory in the Launce3ton Champion Race, and the style in which he carried lOst. 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 all 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 "»3, payable Ist of January, 1879. Groom's fee, ss, 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 fc" , A. PATERSON,