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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1249, 19 April 1880, Page 4

STALLIONS THOROUGHBRED HORSE R.INGL E A D E R Will travel this season in the Oamaru and Surrounding Districts. RINGLEADER stands 16$ handa high, and is dark brown; bred by Mr. Gerrard, of South Australia (breeder of Pride of the Hill, the Ace, Rapid Bay, &c.); by South Australia, imported by Mr. Charles Fisher; his dam, Ringleader, by Jersey (imported); grand-dam, Fairy Queen, by Mosart; great-grand-dam, Fairy, imported by Colenel Lautour for the Cressy Company and pronounced to be one of the finest mares thai: ever left England; South Australia by Cotherstone; dam, Johanna, by Priam ; grand-dam, Johanna, by Sultan; great-grand-dam, Philagreo, by Soothsayer; Mozart by Wanderer (imported); dam Meftno (imported), by Whalebone. TERMS ... £5 ss. Payable at the end of the Season. Paddocks provided at 2a 6d per week. Mares sent to the Northern Stables looked after. Full particulars to be obtained from J | T. Richards, Commercial Stables. EDWARD DEVINE, 6 Proprietors. TO TRAVEL THIS En SEASON M im. IN THE PAPAKAIO AND WAIAREKA DISTRICTS, And will stand at J. Henderson's Windmill, The fashionably - bred and very superior Thorough-bred Horse PE R T 0 BE, Eminently suited for getting Hunters, Handsome Weight-carrying Hacks, and Horses 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 Miss Napier, by Dolaprd (imported) ; Miss Napier's dam, Mrs. Roberts, by Wanderer (imported).—See Victorian Stud Booh, Vol. 11., p. 47. Panic was imported from England to Tasmania, and put to the stud at 3 yrd. old. He was trained and raced at 4, and again put to the Btiid. 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 waa never sick, sorry, or lame," and retired from the turf without a blemish. At the Btud, 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 ia much esteemed. In the breeding of PERTOBE there iB a combination of some excellent strains of blood, such as the Waxy-Whalebone, ia that famous line through Defence, and which comes to him on the sides of both sire and dam. On hi 3 sire Panic's side there is, as well as his good Defence blood, that of the game and stout Venison, the powerful and speedy Melbourne, and, most excellent of all, that of Pantaloon. " Tha

value of the Pantaloon blood is undeniable, having furnished so many proofs, nob alone as to its being speedy and stayiug, but also to its ' training on,' and being essentially a ' running strain for although some others occasionally produce one or two first-clasa animals, few, if any, oan compete with Pantaloon as to numbers. A very grand recommendation 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 coining in through The Promier, 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 Newminsters). The L)elapr<s blood is also very good indeed. Delapr<s'a dam, Fortress, by Defence, was- the dam of the Derby winner, Pyrrhus the First. Mrs. Hoberts, the great grand-dam of Pertobb, was by Wanderer, and Wanderer's blood is good, he being by Wanderer, by Gohauna, by Mercury, by Eclipse. In Tasmania, so much is the Wanderer blood thought of, that they say " a bad one by Wanderer waa never known," and if they can trace a pedigree to a Wanderer mare, they consider that quite sufficient. PERTOBE, by MS as 9 p p a p*g* P- 2 P<S S.<3 o j» B5 o a S.SI3 Sf '"d o 3 cr H-i X Oj . . o B 3. ETQS B, ® - cd c *r a as 2. B'S CO P © ►3. Q CP 7* fe* E M» ct" rn hS^O to 9- O P- □ CrtJQ P *<s S HoS" 3-S a. Augur," in the Australasian, Juno 15th 1878, says :—" I could fill the Australasian with the doinga of " Panic," and his descendants. As a siro of good, sound, and useful stock he has never had an equal iu the Southern hemisphere. His victory in the Launceston Champion Race, and tho style in which ha carried lOst. into seoond 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 stock has become a proverb on the Australian Turf, and the ancient Strop who won a race at Launceston in February, is a living example. Few horses have gone through such an ordeal a3 Melbourne, another son at present performing at Queensland. The greatest of all steeplechasers is undoubtedly Lone Hand, and he is also a son of Panic. Postboy, Postman, Prodigious, and many other good cross country horses, too numerous to men* tion, are also descendants of tho son of Alarm." Terms: L 5 ss, payable Ist of January, 1880. Groom's foe, ss, payable first service. Paddocks provided, 2s 6d per woek, Every care taken, but no responsibility. For further apply to JOHN HENDERSON, R. OUll, or to A. PATERSON, 957 Oamaru.