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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1241, 9 April 1880, Page 4

STALLIONS THOROUGHBRED HORSE Ringleader Will travel this Beason in the Oamaru and Surrounding Districts. RINGLEADER stands 16J hands high, and is dark brown ; bred by Mr, Gerrard, of South Australia (breeder of Pride of the Hill, the-Ace, Rapid Bay, &c.); by South Australia, imported by Mr. Charles Fisher; his dam, Ringleader, by Jersey (imported); grand-dam, Fairy Queen, by Mosart; great-grand-dam, Fairy, imported by Colonel Lautour for the Creasy Company and pronounced to bo one of tho fiiiest 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 tho Northern Stables looked after. Full particulars to be obtained from J [ T. Richards, Commercial Stables. EDWARD DEVINE, 6 Proprietors. TO TRAVEL THIS SEASON

IN THE PAPAEAIO AND WAIAREKA DISTRICTS, And will stand at J. Hkndekson's Windmill, The fashionably - bred and very superior Thorough-bred Horse P E 11 T O B E, Eminently suited for getting Hunters, Handsome Weight-carrying Hacks, anil Horses suitable for the Indian Market. PERTOBE 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 Delaprd (imported); Miss Napier's dam, Mrs. Roberts, by Wanderer (imported).—See Victorian Stud Booh, Vol. 11., p. Vt. 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 raoehorse 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 mauy 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 thora is 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 daw. On his sire Panic's side there is, as well as his good Defence blood, that of the game and stout Venison, tho powerful and speedy Melbourne, and, most excellent of all, that of Pantaloon. Tho value of the Pantaloon blood is undoniablo, having furnished so many proofs, not alona as to its being spoedy and staying, but also to its ' training sn,' and being essentially a 1 running strain for although some others occasionally produce one or two animals, few, if any, can oainpote with Pantaloon as to numbers. _ A very grand ro« commendation' of this strain of blood is, that it mixes successfully with, and improves, all others." Thus writes Copperthwaito, and other good turf authorities agree with him to the same effect. 1 On tho side of the dam of Pertobe there is a lot of good blood coming in through The Premier, whose grandsire, Tomboy, was hy Jerry, out of the Ardrossaa mava (<iUo dam of the mare Beeswing, celebrated not only a,s a first .class racer, bub also as the maternal ancestress of England's very best family of racehorses at the present time, viz., the JSTewminsters). The DelaprS blood is also very good indeed. Delapr6'q dam, Fortress, by Defence, wa3-the dam ol the Derby winner, Pyrrhus the; TTirst. Mrq, Roberts, the great grand-dam of PiiRTOBK, was by Wanderer, and Wandercr's blood is good, he being bv 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 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, Jun« 15th 1878, saya :—" I could fill tho Australasian with the doings of "Panic," and his des» cendants. As a sire of good, sound, and useful stock he has never had an equal in the Southern hemisphere. His victory ijj the Launceston Champion Race, tljj style in which hs lQat. into soQftnq place ip thp MplbournaCup, weroperfarinances of mefifc, and sufficient to satisfy the most exacting that he was a racehorse of no mean order. The soundness of his Btoek has become a proverb on the Australian Turl» and the ancient Strop wfro won & Launceston in February, is 3, living Few horses have goqe 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 cross country horses, too numerous - <SO mptt* tion, are also descendants qf tfyp eon p| Alarm." Terms: L 5 {js, payable Ist qf 18S0. Groom's fee, ss, payable first servioe. Paddocks provided, 2s 6d per weekj Every care taken, but no responsibility. For further particulars, apply to JOHN HENDERSON, 8.-QRR, prto A. PATEkSQIT, 957 Uamaru.