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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 23 December 1880, Page 4

STALLIONS THOROUGHBRED HORSE RI N G L . E A D E R Will travel this season in the Oamaru, Windsor, Otepopo, Kakanui, and Surrounding Districts. RINGLEADER Btands 16i hands high, and is a 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 Colonel Lautour for the Cressy Company and pronounced to be one of the finest mares that ever left England; South Australia by Cotherstone-; dam, Johanna, by Priam; grand-dam,. Johanna, by Sultan; great-grand-dam, by Philagree, by Soothsayer; Mozart by Wanderer (imported) ; dam Merino (imported), by Whalebone. TERMS = ... £4'4s. Groomage, ss. Mares forwarded to Mr. Richards, Commercial stables, -Oamaru will be paddocked at 2a per week. All due earn taken, but no responsibility. Groom in full charge, and will make all arrangements for patrons. N.B.—Pembesley,' by Ringleader, was the winner of many races this season in Victoria, and his owner has refused 500 guineas for him. EDWARD DE VINE, 485 Proprietor. THE EURE-BRED CLYDESDALE STALLION, O U N G MUIR LAD Will travel this season Through Maerewhenua. Ngapara, and the Waitaki Districts,.. Pedigree '• YOUNG MUIR LAD is a bright bay, stands 16J hands high; has immense bone and muscular power, an excellent temper, and superior action; is by the celebrated horse Muir Lad, imported, from Scotland by David Nesbitt, Esq., and is the champion horse of the Australian Colonies, having been awarded that position at the Sydney Exhibition. Dam, Jessie Bowman, out- of Old Blossom (imported), by Prince Charlie (imported). Young Muir Lad has proved himself a sure stock-getter, and his stock is acknowledged to be equal to anything in the district. Terms, £5, payable to. groom at the end of the season. Groom's Fee, ss, payable at first service. Good grass paddocks provided for one month free ; afterwards 2s 6d per week will be charged. All care taken, but no responsibility. All mares sold or exchanged the seller held responsible. GEO. HUTCHISON, 568 Proprietor. WILL TRAVEL THE OAMARU, AN' SURROUNDING DISTRICTS. THE PURE-BRED CLYDESDALE ) R I N r E ROY AL, PRINCE 5 years, is a beautiful bay points; stands 17 hands ; of splenAd proportions, with great weight and qvality of bone, finely feathered. PEDIGREE. Dam—Jean, by Emperor. Sire—Young Prince of Wales (imported). JEAN was bred by Alex. Todd, Esq., East Taieri, out of his famousbrood mare Kate, by Blair's Champion (imported). Kate, out of old Gipsy, by Prince Charlie (imported). Jean, as a 2-year-old was placed first at the Taieri and first at Dunedin; as a 3-year-old took first at the Taieri and second at Tokomairiro. Jean's dam, Kate, as 2-year-old secured second at Taieri and tir3t at Dunedin; as a 3-year-old was first at Taieri and first at Dunedin, while the following year she not only took first as the best brood mare, but was awarded the Champion Cup, presented by Messrs. Wright, Stephenson, and Co., for tho best animal in the yard, YOUNG PRINOE OF WALES, im ported by Henry Hille, Esq., Wautwood, Southland, and bred by Lawrence Drew, Esq., Merry ton, Hamilton. Before leaving Home he was awarded two firsts, and has beaten all the horses of note in the Colonies. His sire, Old Prince of Wale 3, stands, and has stood for the last four years, at £4O. PRINCE ROYAL, as' a yearling, took second prize at Timaru, first at Christchurch, and- first at Oamaru. When 2 years, was second at Timaru, and first at' Oamaru; when 3 years wss second at Oamaru. He is now reckoned the best horse of his years in New Zealand, and hag' proved himself a sure foal-getter. Terms—3ss, and 5a Groom's Fee. Groom's Fee payable at first service. Paddocks provided for mares. Every care taken but no responsibility. All charges payable to the Groom at the eud of season DANIEL M'GREGOR, Owner, 563 Weston, Cave Valley, THE PURE-BEED CLYDESDALE STALLION SCOTLAND YET Will travel this sea3nn through Maerewhenua, Ngapara, Duntroon, Kakanui, and the Waitaki Districts. PKJUIQRBE, Scotland Yet is rising four years old, and stands hands high. He is a rich dark bay, with capital short hairy legs, and four black points. He possesses good sound feet—a, very important requisite in a sire for producing draught stock. He is short in the back, well ribbed-up, with good quarters and splendid action. He has proved a Bure foal-getter, and is a splendid worker. Bred by Mr. James Burgess, Southland, Sirp, Young Prit.ce of Wales, by Drew's Prince of Wales, by General, by Sir Walter Scott, by Old Clyde, by Scotland, by Champion, which takes us fully fifty years back amongst the grand old sires of Clydesdale blood in Scotland. Scotland Yet's dam was bred by Mr. A. Steele, which was got by the weil-known Thane of Clyde, imported by Hugh M'Lean, Esq., of Benmore. Thane of Clyde, bred by Thomas Yoking, Esq., Renfrewshire, Scotland, He took several first prizes iu Scotland when two and three years old. His dam was the celebrated mare Matchless, never beaten in her day. He also gained the first prize, against all comers, at the Southland Agri. cultural and Pastoral Society's Show in 1867, being there for the first time shown in New Zealand. The following year he gained the Gold Medal at the Tokomairiro AgricaltTjral and Pastoral Society's Grand Show, and. was reckoned by competent judges to hs the best bred horse in Otago; also, the Gold Medal at the Clutha. Scotland Yet gained second prize at the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Soc ety's Show in 1877 ; %ad in 1878 he gained the same Society's first prize, beating a field of seven, and he was admitted by the judges on that occasion to be the best oolt bred from the Prince of Wales. Termß—Single Mares, £5; payable on or before Ist February, 1881. Groom's Fee, Five Shillings, payable at the time ol service. All moneys to be paid to the Groom.. For particulars, apply to Alex. Forbes, Groom, in charge of the horse. MR. W. M'EWAN, 588 .' Proprietor,