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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43375, 19 September 1908, Page 4

Stub Notices Oh TO .•'land Ibis season at i»v farm “ Tauglewood.’■ -Te Aroba., and travel surrounding districts THE HEAVY ./R V TIGHT STALLION Royal Gem, Sire -Eoyal Conqueror ; darn —Gem. ROYAL GEM stands about 161 bn ds bigb, is a bay with black points ; a very massive, evenly built borse witb beautiful style of carnage 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. ROYAL GEM has bad a most successful show ring career, having gained seven first and three champion prizes at the Waikato, Franklin, Auckland and Cambridge shows. His sire is the great champion stallion, Royal Conqueror, No. 301 NZ. 5.8., whose fame as a show-ring horse and 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, Domsel (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 principal Shows in England, Scotland and New Zealand. Damsel was over twenty times shown throughout the same countries, and only once (as a year line) 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 the New Zealand Stud Co. She is by the really grandly bred stallion, Rosebery, wbili they imported from Scotland at a very high price. He was a prize winner at the best shows in Scotland, iuclu ling 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 fan ners.

She has a most successful show ring list set to her credit, 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 have been show ring successes, and she can be certainly termed one of the very best of New Zealand’s matrons. TE ilMS—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, j Tost oid at the farm, ‘‘T mglu'vood,” Te ! Aroha, the well-knov-n DRAEGHT STALLION Highland Willie, Sire, Clydesdale Willie; dam, Flash. TERM■'' Single Mare, £2 10s , two or more the property of one owner £2 each. F. ROWE, 3-1 S Te Aroha.

TO stand at To Aroha West ibis coming season and travel the BUrr ounding districts BEN IcDHU _ No 562, N.Z.S.B. Sire Ben McCormick. No 434, dam Royal Maid, No. 1036. BEN McCORMICK 434, was a 'most successful stallion, a sire of really good st< ck and a most handswne sound show ring horse. He won many prizes, including cham - pions 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 his time he won nearly fifty first and champion prizes in Australia and New Zealand, and w is the sire of many first-class horses. Christina F. McCormick was one of the very best mares in every | sense of the word that ever graced I Waikato, and she won many championships at Oamaiu Auckland, and Waikato. Royal Maid. No. 1036 was got by Royal Oorquero", No. 304. dam—Gouria Mail, No. 666. Royal Conqueror No. 30-1 was one of the most popular and successful sires of his time in the Waikato both as a show ring horse and a si-e. Gourio Maid, No. 66th is nnr of the best brood mares in th > Waikat ■ at t lie present, both as to consistency in breeding and quality in h r cfT.-p- ing. She has never su'- T erod dehsir in class for mare and progeny. Royal Maid has w« n priz s as a filly in good company and has been one of two hoi so teams and also <>f three horse teams with gteat success. She has been a consistent and successful breeder.

Ben McDhu, who is a nicf fl;i? 1c bay in colour, with particularly good marking 9, gave great promise of fallowing the show ring feats of his arnwß'-Ts. but owing- to an accident m>t with in his youth ho has nover been shown, lie shows immenso power combined with good quality and soundnw fr. ni any hereditary in'ections, and his breeding should insure his success as a sire, as every sliain on either side of his lineage is of tho best, and to enumerate tho prizes won by them wou’d till a volume. His pedigree could bo extended to an indefiuatc length, as General Fleming, ,‘50,5 •, Crown Prince, 430; Young Banker, I ; Lord Salisbury (imp.), 114 ; and many more names of wed-known ch -mpions appear in tracing his breed., ingjsoit will he passing stiange if Bon McDhu docs not prove a pc-.fit-able acquisition to draught h-use hiei deis who may use him. A is , T!: woll-known draught stalli m, CHIEF COMMANDER By Field Marshall— Lady Sovereign TERMS Single Mare, £‘3 l()s; two or more £3 each, i'll to he paid at the end of the season and the balance if mare proves in foal. Owners at time of service held responsible for marcs sold or exchanged. R, B. HJNES, Owner, 139 Te Aroha West. ’