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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1991, 23 October 1886, Page 4

To Stand this Season in the Blenheim District, i rnHK WELL KNOWN AMERICAN 1 TROTTING STALLION. Oak Grove. OAK GROVE is r bicod <r t h black points , tight years olds 16 f hand-i high, of splendid bon ntper and symmetrical proportions, be onsidered by judges to be o f the best carriage horses ever impo* e d to this Colony. He was broughtjfrom Ame ,ca 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 ha>e 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 one 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 theimpor'er 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 responsibili y. Terms : 50s per mare, groomage f< e os to be paid at time of first service. All fees to be paid by Ist January, 1887. A-zTMares from Awatere, Flaxbourue, Ivekeraugu and Southern Districts fer his horse will be brought to Blenheim t y Mr W. J. Allen,Mail contractor, with whom arrangements cm be made. For further particulars apoly to JOHN ROSS, Groom in Charge, or to CLARK AND PICKERING, 945 Criterion Stables. To Stand this SeasonBLENHEIM DISTRICT. TPE PUKE BRED CLYDESDALE ENTIRE HORSE. Conqueror. CONQUEROR is a bright bay, now 10 years old, standing 17 bands high, bane of unequalled quality, immeuse muscuDr power splendid action, and most docile temper Ho was bred by Mrs Miller, West Taieri, out of her celebrated mare Ducl)«ss, and is by Empcro*, out of the pure Clydesdale mare Kate (imported by the late Mr James Strachan). Emperor has gained three first and three second prizes, and is got by the renowned Napoleon (imported by Mr J. Nimmo). Napoleon. by George Buchananjs Emperor, out of Nancy, bred by Alexander Finlay, Eeq. Sandyhills, near Glasgow, Nancy by the celebrated Garnary horse ; her dam is Scot man. Conqueror took the first prize as a two-year-old at the Blueskin Show, 18/6 and second prize for all comers and aged borsts at the same show • and at Oamaru the following year took second prize as n three-year-old in a field of nine competi. tors. At five years old be took first prize at Timaru, 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 'firstprize at Wanganui. First prize at Taranaki, 1881. . Conqueror’s stock are allowed by com petent judges to be the best ever bred in this Colony: having plenty of size, abundance of hair and bone, and hocks of unexceptional quality, combined with general symmetry. TjtNMS : —Single mares, £3 j two or more,. reductiep as per arrangement groom age, ss. Conquero* will be limited to forty mares' besides owners’. Good Paddocks, la 6d per week, every care taken but no liability. For further particulars apply to JOHN ROSS, Groom, or > CLARK AND PICKERING, Criterion Stables, 942

TO STAND THIS SEASON AT MARLRQROIJGHTO WN. THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE Louis D’Or. LOUIS D’Or i 9 a chestnut Horse 8 years old standing over 16 hands high with great power and is by that celebrated horse TRADUCER, sire fo Rurline, Calumny, Templeton, Sir Modred and a host pf well known winners out of the imported mate Rupee, (late Half Grown). Rupee is by Dollar, the begt son of the Flying Dutchman winner of the Derby and St. Ledger of 1849. Dollar won the Northamptonshire Stakes and Goodwood Cup in 1864, and is 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 Osaian, which jypn the St. Ledger, 1883, and ran second in the Goo/Jw.ood Cup in 1884, Louis D’Or received first honors three years in succession as the beet thoroughbred entire at the Marlborough Agricultural Show, and ran second to Grip iu tbe C. J.C. Handicap when a three year old, Mpmoucbe dam of Rupee is by the Baron, sire pf fitppjiwell and Rataplan. Louis D'Or will visit Havelock on Mondays (weather permitting); at Spring Creek, on Tuesdays ; Blenheim, Wednesdays and Saturdays ; Picton, Fridays ; at our stables Thursdays. Terms—For thoroughbred mares L 6, others L? 10s with a groomage fee of 5s to be paid oh first seryioe, A Liberal reduction, as per agreement, will be rpade if two or more mares, the lona /whs "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. ON §A L $ at CARD & RABON£'§^-‘ Froude’a OCR ANA, Hugh Conway's “ Carrie ton’s: Gift ” and other Stories. Guida’sA Rainy June.” (100,000 copies of this book have been sold,) A variety of other new Novels, Foyelettes, etc.