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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 795, 29 October 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

TO TS PAPAKAIO, WAIAREKA, AND KARANUI DISTRICTS, If sufficient inducement offers, The fashionably - bred and very superior Thorough-bred Horse > E R T O B E, l. Eminently suited for getting Hunters, Handsome Weight-carrying Hacks, and Horses suitable for the Indian Market. ' PERTOBE is a beautiful dapple brriwE Stallion, standing 16 hands high, Bred by H. Phillips, Esq., Victoria, in 1569. Got by Panic (imported); his dam, Hester Grazebrook, by The Premier (im? ported), out of Miss Napier, by Delapre 1 (imported) ; Miss Napier's dam, Mrs, Roberts, by Wanderer (imported). — See Victorian Stud Book, Vol. 11, p. 4-7. Panic wa3 imported from England to Tasmania, and put to the stud at 3 yrs. old. He was trained and raced 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 firstclass 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 first-class mares, he has got more winners out of half-bred ones than any horse in Victoria, and for general purposes his stock is much esteemed. In the breeding of PERTOBE there is a combination of some excellent strains of blood, such as the Waxy-W 7 halebone, 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 >-tb.ere is, as well as his good Defence blood, tnat of the game and stout Venison, the powerful 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 essentially a i' running strain ;' for although some others occasionally produce one or two first-class animals, few, if any, can compete with Pantaloon as to numbers. A very grand rej commendation of this strain of blood is, that it mixes successfully with, and improves, all others." Thus writes Copperthwaite, and other good turf authorities agree with him to the same effect. On the side of the dam of Pertobe there is a lot of good blood coming in through The Premier, whose grandsire, Tomboy, was by Jerry, out of the Ardrossan mare (the dam of the mare Beeswing, celebrated not only as a first-class racer, but; also as the maternal ancestress of England's very best family of racehorses at the present time, viz., the Newminstcrs). The Delapr6 blood is also very good indeed. Delapr6's dam, Fortress, bj' Defence, was the dam of the Derby winner, Pyrrhus the First. Mrs. Roberts, the great grand-dam of Pertobe,, was by Wanderer, and Wanderer's blood is; good, he being by Wanderer, by Gohanna, by Mercury, by Eclipse. In Tasmania, so much is the Wanderer blood thought of, that they say " a bad one by Wanderer was never known," and if they can trace a pedigree to a AVanderer mare, they consider that; quite sufficient. PERTOBE, by C 3 g Cg a "Augur," in the Australasian, June lotb, 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 has 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 Melbourne 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 track baa become a proverb on the Australian Turf, and the ancient Strop who won a race at Launceston in February, is a living exrvnip2e„ Few horses have gone through such an ordeal as Melbourne, another son at present performing at Queensland. The greatest of all steeplechasers is undoubtedly Loro Hand., and he is also a son of Panic, Postboy 9 Postman, Prodigious, and many other good cross country horses, too numerous to menS tion, are also descendants of the son of Alarm." Terms: L 5 ss,- payable Ist of January, 1879. Groom's fee, os, payable first 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, Oamaru.