HORSE PARADE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 80, 25 September 1911, Page 4

HORSE PARADE.

A DISAPPOINTMENT. 1 Owners of stud horses did not roll up for the horse parade on Saturday for some reason or other. There was ii large crowd of people there, who were keenly disappointed, for they were anxious to see what class of animals would lie looking for support this bleeding season. There- were only two thoroughbreds, one draught, ami two ponies on parAde. CAMI'FIKE AXD SYLVIA PAUK. Mr. J. Bond paraded the two thoroughbred stallions, Canipfire and Sylvia Park, and for pedigree and track performances these two sires just about till the bill. Camplire is a son of Carbine,, by lievelry, aud is eight years old, » brown horse, standing It! hands. Ho i» in splendid nick, and displays a lot ot the Musket character in his powerful*! quarters, back and loins, whilst lie also has a lovely head and neck, and behaves like a gentleman. Sylvia Park, a chestnut, is well-known as a getter of paeu. His understandings are built on heavier lines than those of his stable-mate, and the old fellow is looking very well. Volume, one of his gets, won the Veil#ing, llinvke's 'Bay, lla'wera and WaitafJ cups, and the New Zealand St. t<eg(?Vliesidcs running second to Zimmermu in the tireat Northern Derby. another of Sylvia Park's progeny, hold* the record for the llawera course (syt furlong* in lmin Msec) and the \Yang»nui course (Imiles in 2min B%see(, COXSBY. Mr. A. ,1. Orchard's Consby, the only draught stallion on parade, showe d a heqip of quality, lie is a dapple gi'Oy, and comes from the well-known tile* gyle, whose progeny is well thought of where honest workers are required. Ut has good action, and stands on good with immense fiat bone. POX IKS. Lord Bobs (King Cob—Toffy), wlm won in the show ring at Xew Pl)mouth, is a Ix'autiful little roan, 12 hands high, tractable, and powerfully built. Me in standing at Tataraimaka, and is owned by Messrs. Featherstone and liramakl Nae-Xae, the property of Mr. (ins Sol* is by Mosquito—'Tiny. lie's a bhuj little clmp, a bit on the small side. Captain Mitchell mistook the time for which the parade was advertised, and a»rived late with his roan hackney Silver King and tile Clydesdale stallion Empire. Both attracted much attention in town during the afternoon.'