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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3048, 7 November 1888, Page 4

FITZ HERCULES. FITZ HERCULES is adnrk brown horao standing 10 linuds high, with immcnso bono !tn'] inuscio, possessed of a good tcrapor, ami qulot to rido, Ho ,to brod by'that celobratcd breeder, W. Walters, Esq., of Auckland, who bred and raced simo of tho fastest and best horses tlia 1 ; over trod tho Now Zealand turf. Among tho number was Fitz Hercules. By winning tho Auoklnnd Derby, second to tho Dauphin for tho Canterbury Derby, and. third to Grip in the Canterbury Cup, all weight (or ago, ho proved that ho was capable of holding his own with tho best of_ them under oig weights. Having met with an accident, him from raciog 1 n f: S 1 Fitz Hercules is , Yattendon, sire of Grand Flaneur, winner of tho Mclboumo Cup, Champion Hace, VHC Derby, St Leger, and Australian Derby; Lnily Emma, winner of tho Duncdin Cup, J 0 Handicap, and Forbury Handicap j Cheater, winner of tho, Melbourne Cup, and V R C Derby j Habena, Vulcan, Morina, all Maribyrnong Plato winners; Dagworth and Hesperian, Metropolitan winners ; and Ja'velin, A J 0 Derby winner, Chester's stock—eight horecs—havo won among them during this seas on 25 races of tho not value of £11,040, and it is a'so worthy to nolo that since those three clinkers, Abcrcorn, Carlyon, and Cronhroolt, commenced their career, tliey havo been responsible for 20 races of the value of £12,945 18s. Abcrcorn. claims tho lion's sharo, viz, £7,290 18s, Carlyon has £3090 before his name, and Cranbrook follows with £2595. Eitz Heroulc-s dam, Peeress, was by tho Peer, dam Miss Rowo, by Sir Hoicules, Miss Millor by Young Wanderer, Tho I'cor by Melbourne, Cinizelli by Touch, stone, Brocado by Pantaloon, dam Bomba. zinc, by Thunderbolt, -Yattendon by Sir Hcrculcj and Cassandra, by Tross, dam Alice Gray, by Bass, Emigrant, dam Gulnnro, Sir Hercules by Cap-a-pie, dam Paraguay, by Sir Hercules, dam Paradi. gan. For pedigree and performances Fib Hercules' dam stands unequalled in tho Southern Hemisphere. Peeress won two Canterbury Cnps and Canterbury Jockey Club Handicap, boiides numerous other races, aud was considered the best maro of her day. Peetcsa' dam, Miss Howe, was tho best maro in Australia, and with Bob Ray in the saddle was nover known to be beaten, ' Augur 1 tho sporting writer of the Australasian, says he has known them to win every raco at a meoting in Mr Redwood'i colours. Afterwards Mr Redwood sold his stud to Mr J, Tate, who won six Melbourno Cups aud two Champions with tho samo strain of blood—all Sir Hercules. Miss liowe is the dam of Una, tho best maro that ever stepped in Canterbury. Una, tho dam of Ariel. Ariel winner of tho Canterbury Cup, Duncdin J,O Handicap and Forbury Handicap, three Auckland Cups. Peeress will never be forgotten—nor will hor half brother Manuka-on the Molbourne Course having \m tho Canterbury Plates beating Gloijcoo nnd all the best horses in Australia at weight forage, two miles. _ In tho year of tho Dnkeof Edinburgh visit to Auckland Peeress won at tho Thames all thd races started in the- stakes amounting to £BOO. The week following at Auckland and Klleralic Peeress also won all she started for and stakes again amounting to over £SOO, Peeress' aire, The Peer, the siro of Darcbin, Darobin siro of Australian Peer, whowou all the principal races last season. Yattendon is credited with getting more winners than any other horse in the Australian colonics, and his progeny—both horses and marcs-aro following in hs footsteps. First Chester, by Chester, ai|d Shah, by St. George, My Idea, dam of ficlsoni are all t|io progeny of Yattendon liorsos nnd mares, yaftciinn, by Yattendon, is the dam of Llbellor, Fusilier, Matchlock and Kingfieh, The above will show that Fitz Hercules is one of the stoutest and best bred horses that has over bcun in this district, and with tho cross of Tho Peer and Sir Hercules blood should get tho right sort of horses, both for Bat racing, cross country, aud tho Indian market. TERMS: , Thoroughbred marcs JO guineas j all others 5 guineas. Two or pjore a? per agreement, payable by P.N Ist January, 18S9, 2999 JOHN BUCKF/RIDGE, TO TRAVEL THIS SEASON. Botivcon Mastorton and tho Bush Districts the well-known siro " KEMP' KEMP is a substantially built Dark .Brown horse, four-year old, and stnnds 16.8 hands high. He is largo boned nnd being proportionately built should prove himsell to be tho vory liorso required to improvo tho present breed of woight-carying hacks now in the District. Kemp, rs a yearling, took second prize nt tho 1 Masterton Show, in 1885, nlso 2nd prizo tho same year for the best Canidon Colt. In 1886 ho tfiojf 2nd prizo as ut two-year old at tho Masterton bho#, and also Jsf af the same show in 1887 as a throo.yeav old Coaching (stallion. TERMS-£2los per maro, For further particulars apply to JOHN DEVONSHIRE, TO TRAVEL IN THE WAIRARAPA DISTRICT. mHE purebred Clydcsdalo Stallion— AVON. . A YON is a bay horse with black points, ana stands 17 lianda hjg)), witji plenty of bono and liair. Ho is'como of n great family. His dam was Bold at 800 guineas when good mares were sold at a fourth of that prico. She is out of a blackleg mare—one of a family of foiir, oijt of t|io snmo dam, mid tho quartett'o, by llonfrow Jock, were tho four beat horses ever bred in tho Oarnaru district.

AVON, by Avon Chief, (150 N.Z.S.B). bred by Wi Bung, fty., teuton, jiear Chrlstchurcb, out of Ills famous prli<e maro Graoo Darling (DO) by I'rinco of Killbrido imported (602), Graeo Darling, byPrinco Charlie, imported (4 and 626). Grace Darling was fclio best maro that ever stood in New Zealand. Sho has been first aud Champion at Christchurch many times, beating tlio great Maggie Craig, Champion of Scotland. Sho was first in Dunedin iu her class and champion of tlio yard, lii fact her career is unprecedented. AVON'S dam Gipsy, by Renfrew Jqcli'(li)o)' wippriofl frpm-yifitpfia; g siro liciifrow imported' from Scotland i g dam Joss by Blackleg imported from Scotland, llonfiw Jock's dam Jloao, by Crowd® Lad, a famous Clydeßdalo imported froti) Scotland by the lato David Nesbitt. Ilenfrow Jock was a most successful show horso, Before leaving Victoria he took many firsts, and he was first for three years in succession ill Qamaru, Timaru, and Dunedin, and Champion of the y/ifd as well. . From this iiistory breeders \v|llreoog ; niso that they have in Avon not only "a horso of good parts, but an Entire of good lineago, a matter altogether different to a good-looking horso. The (jreat point in horse-breeding is to have a siro'cgnncpfed with good families of uiuloubtou ciiariiptdj;! jn tjia one caso the stock will be uniformly good, whilo in tlio othor caso individuals may surpass, but tlio goncral character of the stock will be inferior and disappointing. Notfij(jd« inoro grievous to a breeder y ?pf.i,'!§ fcom a good-' loflkin'g sire,' " 'forms L 5, payablo by P-N. »t first Ecrvi'ci), duo January 1, 1888'. -Groomago foo 6s, AH but no ree r ponsibility. Forfull iiiforrhawon »pp}y to G.WATSON, 3026 Proprietor. ■ Or to W'WESTPOOK, Qroom in Charge, TO STAND THIS SEASON AT . HOPPUSH, MASTERTON. fJIHE THUROOGDRED STALLJjO^ Daniel O'Connel forms £210? per )par^, Also tlio - PUREBRED OLypEfjDALE STAL- ' ' ' wou Laird Q'Largo, For further particulars apply to : " ANGUS FIIASEII, 8027 Spebush,