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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 44, 16 January 1883, Page 1

Horses. 1 — — : ~ —- — ! The Thoroughbred SjbalHon MORPHEUS will travel the Palmerston, Feilding, and Sansou Districts this season. • TLTORPHEUS is a golden chestnut, : jyi. .standing 16 hands 3 inches ; thoroughly sound iv all respects. He ia i 0 years old, and by that fasc and welly known horse Castaway* dam Somnambula by To*ton, dam Opera by II BarJbarie, dam Cassandra by Priam j Tow* n ton by Melbourne j; Castaway by Tra r ducer, dam Mermaid. Morpheus comes from a great racing family, claiming some aristocratic and highxclass performers as his relatives. His sire won the Wellington Cup and ran second for the Canterbury Derby and Great Autumn Handicap. He is full brother * to iiurline and Le Loup. The performances of these animals m New Zealand and Australia need no comment. Le ! Xioup won the Canterbury J. C Handi,cap and Cup ia 1880. Opera, grand "dam of Morpheus, won the Canterbury /Derby m 186*4. " Tambourini was also feom Opera, by Towton, and won, amongst other races, the Canterbury J. 3-C. Handicap and Canterbury and Wel- '. .lingtpn Cups, besides performing sue* 'cesstully over hurdles. Salvage by Castaway ran second for the Wellington • Cvp 1 last year, giving the winner a year \ and a pound. Won the Great Autumn f Handicap at Christchurch, and is nomi..nated.for the Melbourne Cup. Terms, £5, and 5s groomage fee. >■. For furtner particulars apply to ]\~ FRANK PALMER. To Travel thi Season, m the Rangi- : ' ' ' tikei and Manawatu Districts, - ' • the Thoroughbred Entire .. r . . i. .■ ■ Horse .»;:',:.■. DIOMEDES. TvIOMEDES by Totara, dam Plover, I) . .- by Sir Herculesr-For particulars Bee New Zealand- Stud -Book Ployer 18 s the dam of Malvina and other win- j ners. Diomedes stands sixteen and ahalf' hands, is a- rich bay with black points, and well suited to improve the breel of horses such as are required for useful purposes. .UTbbms —Single Mare, £4. _ Two or more, the bona nde Vl ■ •■-■■■■■_■ p rO pertj of one owner, £8 10s. *'*" Appif to the i owner -.!; ? : JOHN STEVENS-, Or the Groom m Charge. CCJ i-L- : : ■ . • ' . • *■ '. „ To Travel this Season m the Palmerston and Manawatu Districts, , The Purebred Clydesdale Entire Horse -:■■■'■ PKINCB OF THE VALLEIf. PRINCE OF THE VALLEY, by Royal Conqueror out of Gipsy, by Clyde Champion (imported), out of J. * Andrews' well-known mare Polly, by Farmer (imported), and grand dam i (imported); Royal Conqueror, a pure Clydesdale, . took "first prize at Battersea as a two-year-old, at the United Exhibition of the Royal Agricultural 'Society of England and the Royal •^Highland Society, and was therefore entitled to be regarded as the best colt . (; in .England and Scotland m his year. He was selected and imported for Mr H". Redwood by the Hon. W. Robinson. ; 'Gipsy has taken two first prizes at the Richmond Agricultural Show. Prince of the Valley toqk : first prize a at the Richmond Agricultural Show for three-year-olds m 1875 v first prize ; for ' provincial bred m 1876, first prize for * prcvincial bred m 1877, and also first "' prize against all comers, beating the. imported horses Sir Walter Scott and British General.: Prince of the Valley will be at Ashurst every "Monday^ Woodville Tuea--1 day, Palmerston Wednesday, A wahuri Thursday, 1 lackey town Friday, Palmer~"Bton Saturday. " «.. -- Terms.— Single Mares, £3 10s ; reduction two or more mares j groomage fee* 2s Bd.^ Fees payable on or before Ist February Paddockmg Jree for three weeks. n Every care ffken but no responsibility. : ' "For/ further' particulars apply to the Groom m charge at the Royal Hotel. ;;..■;■;:•'■ ADVERTISERS. ADVERTISEMENTS for the daily ■*•»■ country edition must be left at the office by. 1 p. m.. and for the town edition not later than 3 p.m. Ncßv-^AU -advertisements appear m both town and country editions without extra eharge'to advertisers. T 1 *™" HE Makawatu IStandahd is the only Palmerston paper that has any circulation m Fielding or the Man- «. Chester Block, m which it has a daily lona fide isflup of over three hundred copies.