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North Otago Times, Volume 2094, Issue 2094, 18 January 1879, Page 1

Stud Notices. TO TRAVEL THIS SEASON INTHK PAPAKAIO, WAIAREKA, AND KAKANUI DISTRICTS, If sufficient inducement offers, Ihe Fashionably-bred and very Superior Thoroughbred Hone PE R T OB E, eminently suited for getting Hunters, Handsome Weight - carrying Hacks, and Hones suitable for the Indian market. PERTOBE is a beautiful dapple brown Stallion, standing 16 hands high. Bred by H. Phillips, Esq., Victoria, in 1869. Got by Panic (imported) ; his dam, Hester Grazebrook, by the Premier (imported), out of Mirs Napier, by Delopre' (imported) ; Miss Napier's dam Mn Roberts, by Wanderer (imported).— See Victorian Stud Book, Vol. 11., p. 47. Panic was imported from England to Tasmania, and put to the stud at 3 yrs. old. He was trained and rticed at 4, and again put to the stud. When he was 6 yrs old, he was purchased at a high price, and imported to Victoria, where he had two more seasons' training and racing.* He proved himself the best English horse ever trained in Australia. He ran remarkably well, and won several races, carrying heavy weights ; he was both speedy and staying, of a most docile and quiet temper, with a wonderful constitution, and legs like iron. Like his sire, that fintclass English racehorse Alarm, "he was never sick, sorry, or lame," and retired from the turf without a blemish. At the stud, although from being in an out-of-the-way place, he has not been favored by many fint-class mares, bo has got more winners out of half-bred ones than any hone in Victoria, and for general purposes his stock is much esteemed. In tbe breeding of PERTOBE there is a combination of some excellent strains of blood, such as the Waxy-Whalebone, in that famous line through Defence, and which comes to him on the sides of both sire and dam. On his sire Panic's side there is, as well as his good Defence blood, that of tbe game and stout Venison, the powcrfnl and speedy Melbourne, and, most excellent of all, that of Pantaloon. " The value of the Pantaloon blood is undeniable, having furnished so many proofs, not alone as to its being speedy and staying, but also to its " training on, and being ebsentialiy a " running strain " ; for although some others occasionally produce one or two first-clnsa animals, few, if any, can compete with Pantaloon as to numben. A very grand recommendation of this strain of blood is that it mixes successfully with, and improves, all othen." Thus writes Copperthwaite, and other good turf authorities agree with him to the same effect. On the side of the dam of Pkrtobe there is a lot of good blood coming in through The Premier, whose grandsire, Tomboy, was by Jerry, out of the Ardrossan mare ((he dam of the mare Beeswing, celebrated not only as a fint-class racer, but also as the maternal ancestress of England's very best family of racehorses at the present time, viz., the Newmiusters). The Delapre 1 blood is also very good indeed. Delaprt's dam, Fortress, by Defence, was the dam of the Derby winner, Pyrrhus the Fint. Mrs Roberts, the great grand-dam of Pkrtorf, was by Wanderer, and Wanderer's blood is good, he being by Wanderer, by Gohanna, by Murcury, by Eclipse. In Tasmania, so much is the Wanderer blo<id thought of, that they say " a bad one by Wanderer was never known," and if they can trace a pedigreo to a Wanderer mare, they consider that quite sufficient. PERTOBE, by ©a "s II I ► f' 8?I I • * I ** I wl 5 U ft H it ii.fi f s "Augur," in the "Australasian," June 15th, 1878, says :— "I could fill the " Australasian" with the doings of Panic and his descendants. As a sire of good, sound, and useful stock, he ban never had an equal in the Southern hemisphere. His victory in the Launceston Champion Race, and the style in which he carried lOst. into second place in the Mcll>ourno Cup, were performances of merit, and sufficient to satisfy the most exacting that he was a racehorse of no mean order/The soundness of his stock has become a proverb on tbe Australian Turf, and the ancient Strop, who won a race at Launcestou in February, is a living example. Few horses have gone through such an ordeal as Melbourne, another son, at present performing in Queennlimdj Tho greatest of all steenlechasen is undoubtedly Lone Hand, and lie is also a son of Panic. Postboy, Pobtiran, Prodigious, and many other good cross country hones, too numerous to mention, are also descendants of the son of Alarm." Terms.— £s ss, payable Ist of January, 1870. Groom's fee, ss, payable at fint service. Paddocks provided, 2s 6d per week. Every care taken but no responsibility. For further particulars, apply to JOHN HENDERSON, Groom in charge ; or to A. PATERSON,

selO Oamaru. TO TRAVEL THIS SEASON IW THE OAMARU, HAMPDEN, AND PALMERSTON DISTRICTS The Thoroughbred Entire Horse "T| U N T R O O N (Late the Property of the Hon. R. Campbell). Duntroon by Mai ton, out of Revoke (dam of Trump Card, Ac.) Further Particulon in Future Advertisements. Terms— £3 10s ; Groomage, ss. ALEX. M'KAY ocll Proprietor