Shipment of Clydesdales for New Zealand.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 990, 25 October 1881, Page 2

Shipment of Clydesdales for New Zealand.

[From the European Mail, Aug. 26.] Messes. James McEwen and Co., of 27, Lombard-street, shipped on Thursday morning per Afghan, s.s., which left the Victoria Docks for Melbourne, three very valuable Clydesdale horses, recently bought in Scotland, for the Auckland Stud Company. The exceedingly handsome, powerful, wellbred stallion Roseberry, bred by Mr. Lawrence Drew, was one of them. He gained three first prizes as a two-year-old in 1878, and the following year carried off both the West Lothian Society’s £lOO premium, and the second prize at the Highland Society’s Perth Show, where he was also entered for the Champion Cup, won by his brother, Tacks All. This year he won the Duke of Argyll’s premium of £l5O to serve mares for the tenantry on the Kyntire estate at £5 each, and has served 86 mares there this season. He also took a third prize at the Highland Society’s Kelso Show in 1880. A horse with grander quarters, more compactly and symmetrically made, has seldom been seen, while he carries his handsome head and crest proudly, and, although displaying great gaiety, has one of the most amiable of tempers. His colour is a bright bay, and he is prettily marked with a star in the forehead. He is by Drew’s celebrated Prince of Wales, and out of Ruby, a well-known prize-taker, amongst whose winnings are included first prizes at the Lanarkshire show two years in succession in the brood mare class, and also a first prize at the East Kilbride Show in a competition open to the whole of Scotland. With two such parents, the magnificent character of Roseberry is not surprising, as every Clydesdale man knows what grandquartered beautiful animals Drew.s Prince of Wales was always reputed to get. The Auckland Stud Company will not only have a treasure in this grand animal, but in both the others which accompany him. These consist ■of two young mares, one Emma, by Darnley, and from a dam by Young Campsie, bred by Mr. David Riddell; the other, Lillie, by Darnley, out of a dam by Kerr’s Conqueror. Emma is a very powerful, strong-limbed, massive four-year-old hay, very broad at the chest, ribbed up, and closely packed in her quarters, while |her legs for stoutness are mote of the character of the Shire-horse type than the Clydesdale. She has won nine first prizes, a Highland Society’s third, and a gold medal at the Renfrew County as the best mare or filly exhibited, and to her greater credit she won the latter trophy, and also two of her first prizeo, when only a yearling. Emma has been served by Mr. D. Riddell’s three-year-old stallion St. Vincent, a worthy son of Prince of Wales, before referred to, and Sheba, the splendid mare which won the cup at the Royal Liverpool in 1888, as the best agricultural mare in the yard. Lillie is only three years old, and is a rich dark brown in color, with handsome head and chest, a lengthy well-shaped form, standing high on legs, with beautiful style and far-stepping action. She is a Clydesdale all over, and will develop into a very fine mare. Lillie has never been shown but twice, on one of which occasions she won first prize, and although she only took third prize at Johnston open show, it was in competition with older mares, whose forms had fully developed. Both her sire and the sire of her dam were noted show yard animals, for Kerr’s Conqueror and Darnley, each carried off the Glasgow premiums two years in. succession, and the latter was the Highland Society’s champion stallion on two separate occasions—at Edinburgh and at Dumfries. Lillie has been served by Mr. D. Riddell’s Royal Stamp, by Liberal Tom. and a grandson of Kerr’s Conqueror.