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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43382, 8 October 1908, Page 4

Notices TO stand this season at my farm 11 Tanglewood,” Te Aroba, and travel surrounding districts THE HEAVY ijRATTGHT STALLION Royal Gem, Sire - Royal Conqueror ; dam —Gem. ROYAL GEM stands about 161 ha - >ds high, is abay 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 qualify, with abundance of bone and hair, and should please most fanciers of weight, quality and action combined. ROYAL GEM has had 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 stalli >h, Royal Conqueror, No. 304 N.Z.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 nev r I suffered defeat, and was shown at all tne prineipal Shows in England, Scotland and New Zealand.' Damsel was over 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 the 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, 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 I Waikato horse fan ners. I 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. TERMB—Single Mare, £3 l()s ; 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.

I Also, To stand at the farm, “Tanglewood,” Te Aroha, the well-known DRAUGHT STALLIOX Highland Willie, : Sire, Clydesdale Willie; dam, Flash. TERMS - (Single Mare, £2 10s , two or more the property of one owner £2 each. F. ROWE, 3-i-S Te Aroha. . TO stand at Te Aroha West this coming season and travel the surr ounding districts ' BEN McDHD No. 562, N.Z.8.8. Sire Ben McCormick. No, 434, dam Royal Maid, No. 1036. BEN McCORMICK 434, was a most successful stallion, a sire of really good ptock and a most handsome 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 his time he won nearly fifty first and champion prizes in Australia and New Zealand, Mid was 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 Waikato, and she won many championships at Oamaru, Auckland, and Waikato. Royal Maid, No. 1036 was got by Royal Conqueror, No. 304. dam—Gourie Maid, No, 666. Royal Conqueror No. 304 was one of the most popular and successful sires of his time in the Waikato both as a show ring horse and a sire. Gourie Mai l, No. 666, is one of the best brood mates in the Waikato at tin nq both as to consistency in hr- i ' and quality in h r oifspring. Sit h-- never su'.'er-'d defeat in class foi 1 : i-- •* • and progeny. J.’nyal Maid lias w ii prizes as a fillv in goo I company and has been one of tw ■ h HBH teams and also of three horse teams with great success. Flie has h in a consistent and successla 1 l'i cdor.

Bon Mcl)lin, who is a nice dark bay in colour, with particularly good markings, gave great pr mise of 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 ections, and his breeding should insure his success as a sire, as < very s'tain <n < ither side of his lineage is of the best , and to enumerate the prizes won by tin in wou’d (ill a volume. IJis pedigree could be extended to an indefinat* length, as General Fleming, 305 •, Crown Prince, 430; Young Banker, l ; Lord Salisbury (imp.), 114 ; and many more names of well-known eh, mpi-ms appear in tracing bis breedlin r; so it will be passing strange if 1 Hen McDbu does not prove a profit | able acquisition to draught horse [ breedeis who may use him. ' Also, The well-known draught stnlli m, CHIEF COMMANDER Bv Field Marshall— Lady Sovereign j TERMS— Single Mare, £3 10s; two or I more £':s each. £2 to bo paid at the end I of the season and the balance if mare j proves in foal. : Owners at time of service held responsible for mares sold or exchanged. B, B. HJNES, Owner, Te Aroha West. 139