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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1248, 17 April 1880, Page 4

STALLIONS R THOROUGHBRED HORSE I N G LEA D E Will travel this season in t.he Oamaru and Surrounding Districts. R

RINGLEADER stands "16J hands high, ind is dark brown; bred by Mr. .Gerrard, )f South Australia (breeder .of Pride of the Sill, the Ace, Rapid Bay, &c.); by South. Australia, imported by Mr. Charles Fisher ; lis dam, Ringleader, by Jersey (imported) ; jrand-dain, Fairy Queen, by Mosart; fjreat-jrand-dam, Fairy, imported by Colenel Lautour for the Cressy Company and pronounced to be one of, the finest mares that aver left England; South Australia by Dotherstone; 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 2a 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 THIS ffl SEASON PAPAKAIO AND WAIAREKA DISTRICTS, And will stand at J. Henderson's Windmill, The fashionably - bred and very superior Thorough-bred Horse PERT O B E, Eminently suited for getting Hunters, Handsome Weight-carrying Haoks, and Horses suitable for the Indian Market. PERTOBE is a beautiful dapple brown Stallionj .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 Delaprd (imported) ; Miss Napier's dam, Mrs. Roberts, by Wanderer (imported). See Victorian Stud Booh, Vol. 11. ,p. 47. Panio was imported from England to Tasmania, and put to the stud at 3 yrs. old. He waß 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, 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 atook is much esteemed.

In the breeding of PERTOBE there is a combination of some exoollent strains of blood, such as the Waxy-Whalebone, in that famous line through Dofenoe, and which comes to him on the sides of both sire and dam. On his aire Panio'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. " Tha 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 oh,' and being essentially a ' running strain for although some others occasionally produce one or two first-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 grandsiro, 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 Newminsters). The Delaprd blood is also very good indeed. Delaprtj'ti dam, Fortress, by Defence, was- the dam of the Derby winner, Pyrrhus the First. Mrs, Roberts, the great grand-dam of Pkrtobk, 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 was never known," and if they can trace a. pedigree to a Wanderer mare, they oonsider that quite sufficient. PERTOBE, by r 2 2* Ptq cr i MB hj" CD cr? p* S P-2 8 s 8 8 o* fb o go O J* B p- » a* 0- P t*etr p a ti-(M 3. sf 8 o g » to P - O S 05 ffi OQ ® pj p 2.KJ 3.-9 0 6? » Ks s* a B'pT © 1 * oB _ - - . B "Augur," in the Australasian, June lflth 1878, says :—" I could fill the Australasian with the doings of " Panic," and his descendants. As a siro of good, sound, and useful stock he has never had an equal in the Southern hemisphere. His victory in the Launceston Champion Race, and the style in which he carried lOst. into Beoond place in the Melbourne Gup, 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 oraeal as Melbourne, another son at present performing at Queensland. The greatest of all steeplechasers is undoubtedly Lono Hand, and he is also a son of Panio. Postboy, Postman, Prodigious, and many other good cross country horses, too numerous to men* tion, are also descendants of the son of Alarm." Terms: L 5 ss, payable Ist of January, 1880. 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, R. ORR, orto A. PATERSON, 957 Oamaru.