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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1989, 21 October 1886, Page 4

To Stand this Season in the Blenheim District. _ V IEE WELL KNOWIT AMERICAN TROTTING STALLION. Oak Grove. OAK GROVE is a bicod horse with black points, tight years ol stands 16 J hand- high, of splendid bon temper and symmetrical proportions, be ng considered by competent judges to be one of the best carriage hoists ever imported to this Colony. He was brought|from America by John Kerr, Esq., M.H.R. four years ago and has since that time left an excellent re> cord in the districts in which he has travelled. His progeny at an early age distinctly show the gait and pace peculiar to the American Trotter whose ancestors for generations have been trained on the “ track.” OAK GROVE is a son of the celebrated Trotting Stallion “Irvington,” whose performances are familiar to all breeders in the Colony. His dam “Druidess” was bred on the OAK GROVEEstate and in her day was ore of the fastest mares in the States. Oak Grove is a fast Trotter, hss a graceful and elegant style of of action and was specially selected by tbeimporter to put with the valuable American mares introduced into the colony at the same lime. OAK GROVE will travel in the Spring Creek, Tua Marina, Wairau West; and Renwick Town districts. Mares from outside places must be sent in. for which good paddocks are provided at Is 6d per week, every care taken but no responsibility. Terms : 50s per mare, groomage fee 5s to be paid at time of first service. All fees to be paid by Ist January, 1887. £2FMares from Awatere, Flaxbourne, Kekerangu and Southern Districts for his horse will be brought to Blenheim y Mr W. J. Allen,Mail contrac or, with whom arrangements can be made. For furth' r particulars apply to JOHN ROSS, Groom in Charge, or to CLARK AND BICKERING, 945 Criterion Htables.

To Stand this SeasonBLENHEIM DISTRICT. The pure bred clydesdale ENTIRE HORSE. Conqueror. CONQUEROR is a bright now- 10 years old, standing 17 hands high, bone of unequalled quality, immense muscuhr power splendid action, and most docile temper He was bred by Mra. Miller, West Taieri, out of her celebrated mare Duchess, and is by Empero', out of the pure Clydesdale niare Kate (imported by the late Mr James Strachap). Eriiperor has gained three first and three second prizes, and is got by the renowned Napoleon (imported by Mr J. Nimtno). Napoleon. by George Buchananjs Emperor, out of Nancy, bred by Alexander Finlay, Esq. Sandyhills, near Glasgow, Nancy by the celebrated Garnary horse ; her dam is Scotman. Conqueror took the first prize as a two-year-old at the Blueskin Show, 1876 and second prize for ail comers and aged horses at the same show ; and at Oamaru the following year took second prize as a three-year-old in a field of nine competi. tors. At five years old he took first prize at Tirnaru, 1879, and special prize of 12 guineas as a colonial-bred horse to stand in the district that season. Second prize at Wanganui, 1880, against all comers ; the first prize at Patea same year against the same horse that took first-prize at Wanganui. First prize at Taranaki, 18S1. y.„. Conqueror’s stock are allowed by com .petent judges to be the.best ever bred in ,this Cpldny: having plenty of size; abundance'df hWir and bone, and hocks of unexceptional. quality, . combined , with ;general symmetiy. t ~ [Terms.;— Single mares, £3 ; two of pore, feductien as per arrangement ’grpdmafge, ss. ’ ■ u /-■.>’}' -t J Conqueror will be->:limited to .forty mares besides owners’. ‘ 1 Good Paddocks,, Is 6d per, week, every care taken but no liability, 4 ■ O * For further particulars apply to ! JOHN ROSS, Groom, or CLARK AND PICKERING,, 942 is> '-i f Criterion Stables.

TO STAND THIS SEASON AT MARLBOROUGHTOWN. THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE . Louis oOr. LOUIS D’Or is a chestnut Horse 8 years old standiog over 16 hands high with' great power and is by that celebrated horse TRADUCER, sire fo Lurlioe, Calumny, Templeton, Sir Modred and a host of well known wioners out; of the imported mare Rupee, (late Half Crown). Rupee is by Dollar, the best son of the Flying Dutchman winner of the Derby and St. Ledger of 1819. . Dollar won the Northamptonshire Stakes and Goodwood Cup in 1864, and jii the sire of Salvator, winner of the . Grand Prix de Paris in 1875. Salvator was the sire of the sire of the Duke of Hamilton’s Ossian, which won the St. Ledger, 1883, and ran second in the Goodwood Cupi jn 1884, Louis D’Or received first honors three years in succession as the best thoroughbred entire at the Marlborough Agricultural Show, and ran second to Grip in the C. J.C. Handicap when a thyee year old. Mionouche dam of Rupee is by the Baron, sire of Stockwell and Rataplan. » - Louis D’Or will visit; Havelock on Mondays (weather permitting); at Spring Creek, on Tuesdays ; Blenheim, Wednesdays and Saturdays ; Picton* Fridays J at Our stables Thursdays. Terms —For thoroughbred mares L 6, others L 3 10s with a gruomage fee of 5s to be paid on first service. A Liberal reduction, as per agreement, wili be made if tsvo or mote mares, the bona fide property of one person be sent. All fees must be paid by January Ist, 1887. Good paddocks Is 6d per week, great care but no responsibility. 930 G. RICHARDS. -

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