BLOOD HORSES.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1280, 11 September 1880, Page 2

BLOOD HORSES.

— *■ — R. IT. D. FKRnu&so.v, Esq., of Gorton, nc.ir Cambridge the owner of tho thoi'miyhbiN d *-iio Fovc, and who>e blood bt'Hik is cleluuted throughout Now Zealaud, has, wo no! ico by advoiti-emont, purchased tho ccli Ijim ted impoited Norfolk trotting stallion, " Younir Performer." This liui'ae was on th • eve of departure for Australia, when Mr Fer^usson hearing 1 of it, and thinking it a pity that such a ptrain sho'ild bo lost to tho colony, went to Auckland .md bouirht him a few di}'ago. "Young Poifonn r" was imported in 1573 : he is a beautiful dai-lc buy, bl'ick point-, good head, nock aud shoulders, short back, .splendid, loin and quarter-, in f.icfc his .symmetry is q »od, and his action cannot be surp.iwd. Hn is seven years old, perfectly sound, good tempered, and has proved a sine foal getter. He is decended from .some of the best trotting htoc -v in England, by Royal Oak, grandsire Perfection, dam by Quicksilver, granddam by Prickwillow. Peifcction was b^ Catton, and Catton by Bay Beckingham, his dam by Lord Scarborough's Catton, grandd.im by Pretender, the sire of Performer. Pretender was by Mr Jenkiuson's Old Fire Away, who covered in London for several years at five guineas, and trotted two miloa on tli3 Oxford Road in five minutes, andi nme liat'jlv sold for one thousand gurnet, -Tnd Oatton won the RoyalAgiicultur.il Society, s Piize at Lincoln, as the best tiottiug stallion in England. Young Performer took the first prize for tho bj.se roadster stallion, agaiu-t all horsey at the la-t New Zealand Agricultural Society's Cattle Show. IS7B. Mr Feigu-son deberves the thanks of all interested in the improrcment of our horse stock, in his enterprise, and we feel sure that his labors in this good cause will be abundantly rewarded.