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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1095, 22 October 1879, Page 4

STALUONS TO TRAVEL THIS SEASON In the Oamaru, Kakanui, Otepopo, and Hampden Districts, The Thorough-bred Stallion STORMY PETREL. STORMY PETREL by Storm .Bird; dam Zitella, by Morris Dancer, out of Lubra, by the Peer, out of Imported Thorough-bred Mare. Storm Bird (the champion horse of NewZealand in his day) by Sledmere,-out of Spray—dam of Wetsail, Belle of the Isle, and other celebrated horses. For pedigree of Spray, see N.Z. Stud Book. STORMY PIiTREL is a beautiful dark chestnut ; stands near 16 hands higli ; very powerful, has grand action and a splondid temper, and judging from the appearance of foals is likely to get the kind of horses much wanted in this district, viz. y weight-carrying hacks, hunters, and light harness horses. Terms—£3 3s, payable Feb. Ist, ISSO. Groom's fee ss, payable at first servico. WM,. M'KAY, Proprietor. N.B.— Castration as usual, and wii& guarantee if required. Any orders sent to me at Herbert will be punctually attended to. 954 TO TRAVEL THIS Pi SEASON IN THE PAPAKAIO, WAIARKKA, AND KAKANUI DISTRICTS, The fashionably - bred and. very superior' Thorough-bred Horse » E R T O B E, 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 Delapr£ (imported) ; Mis 3 Napier's dam, Mrs. Roberts, by Wanderer (imported).—See Victorian Stud Book, Vol. 11., p. Ift. 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 G yrs. old, lie was purchased at a high price and imported to Victoria, where he had two rhore 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 Alarnij "he waa never sick, sony, 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 o| half-bred ones than any horse in Victoria, and for general purposes his stock ia much esteemed. In the breeding of PERTOBE there is ai combination of some excellent strains o£ 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. 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 Puntaloon. " The value of the Pantaloon blood is undeniable, having furnished so many proofs, not alone as to its being speedy and staying, but also to its ' training on,'aud being essentially a ' running strain for although some others occasionally produce one or two lirst-clasa animals, 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, all others." Thus writes Copperthwaite, and other good turf authorities agree with him. to the same effect. On the side of the dam of Pertobe there is a lot of good blood coming in through The Premier, whose grandsire, Tomboy, was by Jerry, out of the Ardrossan mare (thedam. of the mare Beeswing, celebrated, not only as a first-class racer, but also as the maternal ancestress of England'svery best family of racehorses at the present time, viz., the Newminstoi's). The Delapr& blood is also very good indeed. Delapr6's. dam, Portress, by Defence, was the'dam of the Derby winner, Pyrrhus'the First. Mrs. Roberts, the great grand-dam of PmwoßE, was by Wanderer, and Wanderer's blood ia good, he being by Wanderer, by Gohanna, Iby Mercury, by Eclipse. In Tasmania, so much is the Wanderer blood thought of, that they say " a bad one by Wanderer waa neveu known," and if they can trace a pedigree to a Wanderer marc, they consider that quite sufficient.

' PELITOBE, by o T-.™ T B "Augur," in the Australasian, Juno 15th 1878, 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 i» the Southern hemisphere. His victory in the Launcestoa 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 tha 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 exampl#. Few liorse3 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 men* tion, are also descendants of the son ot Alarm Terms: L 5 ss, payable Ist of January, ISSO. Groom's fee, ss, payable hrst Paddocks provided, 2s 6d per week. Every care taken, but no For further particulars, apply to JOHN HENDERSON, Pi. ORK, or to A. PATERSON, 957 Oamaru.