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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1171, 17 January 1880, Page 4

STALLIONS THOROUGHBRED HORSE RING LEADER Will travel this season in the Oamaru and Surrounding Districts. RINGLEADER stands 16J bands high, and is dark brown ; bred by Mr. Gerrard, of South Australia (breeder of Pride of the Hill, the Ace, Rapid Bay, &o.); by South Australia, imported by Mr. Charles Fisher j his dam, Ringleader, by Jersey (imported); grand-dam, Fairy Queen, by Mosart; great-grand-dam, Fairy, imported by Colonel Lautour for the Oressy Company and pronounced to be one of the finest mares that ever left England; South Australia by Cotherstone; dam, Johanna, by Priam; grand-dam, Johanna, by Sultan; great-grand-dam, Philagree, by Soothsayer; Mozart by Wanderer (imported); dam, Merino (imported), by Whalebone. TERMS ... £5 ss. Payable at the end of the Season. Paddocks provided at 2s 6d per week. Mares sent to the Northern Stables looked after. Full particulars to be obtained from J] T. Richards, Commercial Stables. EDWARD DEVINE, 6 Proprietors. TO TRAVEL SEASON IN THE PAPAKAIO AND WAIAREKA DISTRICTS, And will stand at J. Henderson's Windmill, The fashionably - bred and very superior Thorough-bred Horse > E R T O B 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 Booh, Vol. 11., p. #7. Panio 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 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 Victoria, and for general purposes his stook ia much esteemed. In the breeding of PERTOBE there ifl 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 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, moat 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 to its 'training on,'and being essentially a ' running strain;' for although some others occasionally produce one or two first-olasa 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 (the dam of the mare Beeswing, celebrated not only as a first-class racer, ..but also as the maternal ancestress of England's very best family of racehorses at the present time, viz., the Newminstars). 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. 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, so much is the Wanderer blood thought of, that they say " a bad one by Wanderer wag never known," and if they can trace a peda gree to a Wanderer mare, they consider that quite sufficient. PERTOBE, by rtbde*&§ m *< ' Pes s£l ? i "Augur," in the Australasian, June 15th 1878, says : —" I could fill the Australasian with the doiugs of " Panic," and his descendants. As a siro of good, sound, and useful stock he has nevor had an equal in the Southern hemisphere. His victory in the Launceston Champiou Race, and the style in which he oarried 10st. into second place in the Melbourne Cup, wore performances of merit, aud sufficient to satisfy the most exacting that ho was a racehorse of no mean order. The souuduoss of his stook haa become a proverb on the Australian Turf, and the ancient Strop who won a raoo at Launcoston iu February, is a living example, b'ow 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, aud ho ia also a sou of Pauio. Postboy, Postman, Prodigious, and many other good cross country horses, too numerous to men* tion, are also descendants of the sou of Alarm." Tortus: L 5 6s, payable Ist of January, 1880. Groouvs fee, 6s, payable fire* service. Paddocks provided, 2a 6d per week* Every oaro taken, but no responsibility, fc'or further partumlara, apply to JOHN HKNDKksON, R. OUR, or to A. PAIJBRSON,