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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43386, 12 November 1908, Page 4

I . * , i" 5 ' i'i w " SftfD NOTICEB ‘ m TO stand this .season at my far “ Tanglewood,” Te Aroha, and travel surrounding districts THE HEAVY DRAUGHT 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, 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 stallion, 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' 1 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 ov£r 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, Rose • bery, whih they imported from Scotland at a very high price. Hp 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 fan liers.

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. 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, balanoe 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, 348 Te Aroha. TO stand at Te Aroha West this coming season and travel the surrounding districts BEN McDHU No. 562, N.Z.8.8. Sire Ben McCormick. Royal Maid, No. 1036. BEN MoCORMICK 434, was a most successful stallion, a sire of really good ptock and a most handsome sound shew ring horse. Ho won many prizes, including cbam 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 tir e he won nearly fifty first and champion prizes in Australia and New Zealand, and was the sire of many firsNclase 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—Gouria 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 great promise 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 every strain on either side of his linenge i- of the best , and to enumerate the prizes won by them would fill a volume. Bis pedigree could be extended to an indefinate length, as General Fleming, 305 •, Crown Prince, 430; Young Banker, I; Lord Salisbury (imp.), 114; and many more names of well-known chnmpions appear in tracing his breeding; so it will he passing strange if Ben McDhu does not prove a profitable acquisition to draught horse breeders who may use him. Also, The well-known draught stallijn,

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. R, B. HINES, Owner, Te Aroha West. 139