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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43374, 17 September 1908, Page 4

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TO stand thisfseas|u|at Harm. ■ “ Afoba. and travel surroundingidistricts THE HEAVY iGRATTGHT STALLION Royal Gem, Sire—Royal Cqrijpieror;; dam—Gem. ROYAL GEM stands about 16i hands high, is a bay with black points ; a very massive, evenly built horse with beautiful style of-carriage ai.d action at walk or trot that Cannot be beat. His feet and legs are of the very best quality, with abundance of bone and hair, and should please most fanciers of weight, quality and action combined. , ■ ■ .. r6YA ! L GEM has had W most successful show ring career, having gained seven first and three champion prizes at the Waikato, Franklin, Auckland.: and Cambridge.showed jfi i | : :': ■'’! i His sire is the great champion stallion, Royal Conqueror, No. 304 N.Z.5.8., whose fame as a show-ring horse arid a sire of show-ring stock is well known. Royal Conqueror, sire Crown Prince ; dam Clydesdale Fancy. Crown Prince is by the celebrated Lord Salisbury (imp), dam, Homsel (imp.). Lord Salisbury: and Damsel were the most successful representatives of their class and sex ever brought to the colonies. Lord Salisbury never suffered defeat, and, was shown at all the pririeipal Shows in England, Scotland and New Zealand, Damsel ,was qyei:. twenty times' shown throughout the same countries, and only once (as a year ling) was she defeated). Gem, bay mare, sire Rosebery (imp.)! Ist dam Darling, by Argyle ; g.g. , dam by Prince Arthur (imp), Gem was bred by ihe New Zealand Stud Co. She is by the really grandly bred stallion, Rosebery, whih they imported from -Scotland at a very high price. He was a prize winner at the best shows in Scotland, including the Highland'Society, and was sired by the renowned Prince of Wales. Gem’s lineage on the dam’s side is also first-class, going into the Prince Arthur (imp.) strain, so much favoured with Waikato horse fanners. She has a most successful show ring list set to her eredit, having won in good company, and her success as a brood mare has been phenomenal, both as to number and quality. Almost every one of her many foals haye;been show ring successes, and she can be certainly termed one of the very best of New Zealand’s matrons. TERMS—Single Mare, £3 10s ; two or mo.e mares the property of one owner, £3 each, £2 to, be paid at end of season, balance if mare proves in-foal.

Also, To stand at the farm, “Tanglewood,” Te Aroha, the well-known DRAUGHT STALLION Highland Willie, Sire, Clydesdale Willie; dam, Flash. TERMS—Single Mare, £2 10s , two or more the property of one owner £2 each. F. ROWE, Te Aroha. 348

TO stand at Te Aroha West this coming season and travel the surr ounding districts BEN No. 562, N.Z.B B. Sire Ben McCormick. No. 434, dam Royal Maid, No. 1036. BEN McCORMICK 434, was a most successful stallion, a sire of really good stock and a most hand*'some sound show ring horse. He won many prizes, including champions won at Auckland and Waikato Shows. His breeding is undeniable, being got by Benmore, No. 302, dam—Christina F. McCormick No. 663 Ben More 302 was a well-known champion in hi 9 time he won nearly fifty first and cbampipn prizes in Australia and New Zealand, and was the sire of many first-class horses. Christina F. McCormick waa. one of the very best mares in every; sense of the word that ever graced' Waikato, and she won many cham-i pionships at Oamaru, Auckland, and Waikato. Royal Maid, No. 1036 was got by Royal Conqueror, No. 304.1 dam—Gouria Maid, No, 666. - i Royal Conqueror No. 304 was oqe of the most popular and successful sires of Mis time in the, Waikato bojthaq sj show ring horse and a sire. Gourie Maid, No. 666, is one of the best brood mares in the Waikato at the present, both as to consistency in breeding and quality in her offspring, She has never suffered defeat in class for mare and progeny. Royal Maid has won prizes as a filly in good company and has been ono of two horse teams and also of three horse teams with great success. She has been a consistent and successful breeder.

Ben McDhu, who is a nice dark hay in colour, with particularly good mark* ings, gave.great promise 6t following the show ring feats of his ancestors, but owing to an accident met with in his youth he has never been shown. He shows immense power combined with good quality and soundness from any hereditary in'ection®, and his breeding should insure his success as a 6ire, as every strain on either side of his lineage is of the best, and to enumerate the prizes won by them would fill a volume. His pedigree could bo extended to an indefinate length, as General Fleming, 305 j Crown Prince, 430; Young Banker, I ; Lord Salisbury (imp,), IT4 ; and many more names of woll-known champions appear in tracing his breeding ; so it will be passing strange if Ben McDhu does not prove a profitable acquisition to draught horse breeders who may use him. Als", The well-known draught stalli >n,

CHIEF COMMANDER By Field Marshall— Lady Sovereign TERMS-Single Mare, £3 10s ; two or more £3 each. £2 to be paid at the end of the season and the balance if mare proves in foal. Owners at time of service held responsible for mares sold or exchanged. K, B. HINES, Owner, Te Aroha West. 139