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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2010, 15 November 1886, Page 4

To Stand this Season in the Blenheim District. TII •: WELL KNOWN AMERICAN TROTTING STALLION. OAK GROVE ia a blood horse with black p ints. eight year* old stands 16 * hand- high, of sp'endid bone temper and symmetrical proportions, be i,; <■ ns dered by competent judges to bp u f the best cvni-ige horses ever impur el to this Colony. He wis broughTfrom Ame.ica by John Kerr, lvq., M.H.R. four years ago and has since that time left an (xoellent tocord in the districts in which he has travelled. His progeny at an early age distinctly show the gait and pace peculiar to the American Trottt-r whose a: ctstors for generations have been trained on the track.” OAK GROVE is a son of the celebrated Trotting Sallion ‘•lrvington,” whose performances are familiar to all breeders in the Colony. His dam “Druidess” was bred on the OAK GEOVEEstate and in her day was one of the fastest mares in the .States. Oak Grove is a fast Trotter, hs« a graceful and elegant style of of action and was specially selected bytheimpor 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 hut no responsibili y. Terms : 50s per mare, groom age f- e os to I o paid at time of first service. All fees to be paid by Ist January, ISS7jtS’Mnrea from Awatere, Elaxhourne, Kekerangu and Southern Districts frr his horse will be brought to Blenheim y Mr W. J. Allen. Mail contractor, with whom arrangements esn be made. For further particulars apply to JOHN ROSS, Groom in Charge, or to 945 CLARK AND BICKERING, Criterion stables.

To Stand this SeasonBLENHEIM DISTRICT. mUE TUBE BRED CLYDESDALE 1 ENTIRE HORSE. Conqueror. CONQUEROR is a bright bay, now 10 years old, standing 17 hands high, bone of unequalled quality, immense muscular power splendid action, aud most decile temper He was bred by Mrs Miller, West Tuieri, out of her celebrated mare Duchess, and is by Empero', out of the pure Clydesdale mare Kate (imported by the late Mr Janus Strachan). Emperor has gained three first and three second prizes, and is got by the renowned Napoleon (imported by Mr J. Nimmo). Napoleon. by Giot'ge Buohananjs Emperor, out of Nancy, bred by Alexander Finlay, Esq. Handy hills, near Glasgow. Nancy by j,he celebrated Garnary horse ; her dam is Seotman. Conqueror took the first prize as a two-year.old at the Blueskjn Show, 1876 and second prize for nil comers and »ge,d horsts at the same show ; and at Oamarn the following year took seconl prize as a three-year-old in a field of nine competitors. At five years old be took first prize at Timaru, 187.0, and special pr’ze of 12 guineas as a colooiaLbred horse to stand in the district that season. Second prize at Wanganui, ISB9, against all comers ; the first prize at l J atea same year against the same horse that took fust prize at Wanganui. First prize at Taranaki, 1 SSI. Conqueror's stock are allowed by com pefcept judges to be the best ever bred in this Colony.- hvyipfZ plenty of siz", abundance of hair and bone, and jjopjss of unexceptional quality, coijjbiu.ed general symmetry. Terms : —Single mares, j two or jpore, roducticii a 9 per arrangement groofpagp, ps. Coxj'QUfyiGK "pi bp limited to forty mares besides owners' 1 . Good Paddocks, Is Gd per week, care taken but no liabili y. For further particulars apply to JOHN Groom, or CLARK AND PICKERING, Criterion Stal les. 942

TO STAND THIS SEASON AT MARLBOROUGHTOWN. THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE Louis JD’Or. 11 - . LOpJS D.’Qr is a chestnut Horse 8 years' old fryer Jfi h'rt'rjds Ihj.li wii'h great power arid is'try'mat fn lebiafe'd ii.oree TRADUCEII, sire I fo {.priiue.palumpy,lie hinip to o', Sir Mod red and a jj'ost pi y’ejl kpown Manners out of the imported m'ape Rupee, ({ate Crown). Rupee is by'Dollar, the best 3wn of the Flying Dutchman winner of the Derby and St. Ledger of 1810, 1) > Jar won the Northamptonshire Stakes end Goodwood Cup in ISG4, and i» the sire cf Salvator, winner of the Grand Prix I : ae Fafris in . ißi/p Salvator was the sire ’ ot the' site 'if (he S D Me -or Harnipo.-'o i Ossian, which won the ‘St. Ledge?. 1883, | ‘and run'' second in the Goodwood Clip i’n IMi! 'Louis P’Or received first honors jlhre'e y'caL in suocessidh as the be-.t limrogghbred '.enlffd at tfte Agflet}ltHr»! i epjd pap sepopS t'6 Grip in the C. J .0. tiSf»djpap a three jear old. Miunouclm dam of flup«» i 0 hv Ihe Boron, iire of Stockwell and Rataplan. Louis D’Or will visit Havelock oil Mondays (Weather permitting); at Spring Creek, 'oh Tuesdays /’ Blefibeim, Wednesdays and Saturdays ,* Picton, Fridays’,* at ou'f ".tables Thursdays. Terms —For thoroughbred mares LC, otheis L 3 10s with a fee of 5s to pe paid on first service. A Liberal re- I d uCtiou,' as agreement, wjll he made ' if tvto or "ino fr mares; the bona fidg'f'tb- j perty of one terson be sent:' 1 A7l fees! hiU9t be paiijl by January Ist, ISS7. " Good care out po regpousibj \*j . ] 030 Cl- RICHARDS. ON SALE at CARD & | IIABONE’S- : Froude’s OCEANA. 1 onway’s “ Oarriston’a j I '' " Gift .V and otjbor Srorba. Ctfida’a** A B'air j ' JkheJ’j (100,000 copies of this, book jiave been aold,) A variety of other new Novels, F*.velette-s. etc.