STUD NEWS.
©tuv. late; Preview 'of the^sires of the i season was somewhat incomplete, ■ Mr Frank Palmer^ Morpheus being mad: vertently p omitted from the list, ■ Morpheus' ib a 'golden chestnut, 16' hands 3 inofaes high. ' He 1 is 'five years' old, and, is a very . handsome horse, showing 'I plenty ;of^ Quality and- strength, and is bred 'the' righ£ .way for speed and endurance. -Bis We Castaway ran second for jthe .Canterbury Derby, and seconds for the Great Autumn Handicap, and ■won the Wellington. Cup. Castaway is \ fullf-brother, to Lurline and Le Loop, ' two,.pf the best racehorses ever foaled in j New; Zealand. " Morpbeus's grand dam ' Opera won the ; Canterbury Derby in 1864; and made her murk at the stud by ' producing that 'sterung- performer Tarn» ' bourinb, who, amongßt;other races.'won ' the t'GJJ-.G.'' -Handicap, Canterbury Cup, . and' the Wellington Cup. Morpheus is ' out of Somnambula, by Towton ; Opera by HI {JBarbiere, dam - Cassandra — by Priam.7j r Morpheus will visit Feilding, . SandonyahdPahnerston. ' ■ The 'well-known sh-e Patriarch bids ! f9ir f! tb' become 1 famous as a sure of serviceable cross-country horses. Kath- J leen, a daughter of Patriarch's, carried list 1,11 b,, to -..victory 'in ,the Ballarat ! Hunt ' Club Hnrdleßace a_few weeks ; ego, beating aigood'field of well-known performers. -' -'- '■ * ' '
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 28 October 1882, Page 3
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206STUD NEWS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 28 October 1882, Page 3
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