TROTTINC STALLION BALDER DASH.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2983, 27 August 1891, Page 2

TROTTINC STALLION BALDER DASH.

In our advertising columns to-day will be found a notice referring to the trotting stallion Balderdash, lately purchased by Mr Chas. hake of Cambridge, and whose services will be available by Waikato breeder? this season. We clip the following from a Southern contemporary: — " Balderdash is a dark chestnut six years old, by Rouser from Mischief, and stands sixteen hands high, and is a lengthy, muscular, and big-boned horse, showing fair quality, and for so big a horse he stands on short legs, and he should be a decided acquisition to the district in which ho has to do stud duties. Rouser is a son of the celebrated Messenger from Kate O'Shane, and he has proved one of the most successful sires of jumping and trotting horses in Canterbury, Mexico, Forrester, Primrose and others I could mention being by him. Rouser himself was a first-class fencer, with a good reputation. Mischief is by Young Diomedes, the siro of Victor, who has a three mile record in saddle of Bmin. Usee. Mijchief's dam is known as The Widow, and The Widow left us Moonlight, who, prior to leaving New Zealand held the three mile record of Smiii. Bsec, which stood up to the Autumn of the past soason, when Wanderoo pulled it down to h'min. Balderdash opened tho seas in of IS.S'J on the tith of August by winning two races and running second in a third at Now Brighton. IFo also won tho trot at tho North Canterbury Spring Meeting, and he has shown oxcollont form on several other occasions, and his young stock in the Eingiora district, whore he served a limited number of mares, are coming on well, and are highly spoken of. Mischief, Balderdash's dam, is a mare that dnriug several seasons performed in these parts with much success.