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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43384, 5 November 1908, Page 4

Stud Notices TO stand > this seascu at iny farm «Tangle wood,” Te Aroha, aud travel surrounding districts THE HEAVY uRAUGHT STALLION Royal Gem, Sire—Royal Conqueror ; dam—Gem. ROYAL GEM stands about 16£ hands high, is a bay with black points ; a very massive, evenly built horse with beautiful style of carriage and action at walk or trot that cannot be beat. His feet and legs are of the very -best, quality’, Syith abundance of .bone and hair, and should please most .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. Hissireis the great champion stallion, Royal 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 never suffered defeat, and was shown at all the 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 Stqd Co. Shei&by the really grandly bred. stallion, ,Rqse>bery, 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 fanciers.

She has a most successful show ring list jset to her credit, having won in good icompany, 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. 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 Tp Aroha West this coming season and t travel * the surrounding districts No. 562, N.Z.6.8. Sire Ben McCormick. No. 434, dam Royal Maid, No. 1036. BEN MoCORMICK 434, was a most successful stallion, a sire of really good stock.and a most handsome sound show ring horse. He won many prizes, including oham~ 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 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 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 one 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 bay in colour, with particularly good markings, gave groat promise of following the show ring feats of his ancestors, but owing to an accident met with in bis youth he has never been shown. He shows immense power combined with good quality and soundness from any hereditary m entions, and his breedmg should insure his success ah a sire, as every strain on either side of bis lineage is of the best, and to enumerate the prizes won by them would 611 a volume. His pedigre* could be extended to an indefinate length, as General Fleming, 305; Crown Prince, 430; YouDg Banker, i; Lord Salisbury (imp.), 114’; and many more names of well-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. Also, The well-known draught stalli >n,

CHIEF COMMANDER By Field Marshall— Lady Sovereign TEEMS—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

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