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Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 45

mo STAND THIS SEASON A At XORTH ROAD, OAMARU, The Thoroughbred Imported STALLION OBLIGADO. OBLIGADO is one of tho most fashionably* bred horses ever imported from England. Through his sire Orville he runs back through Ormonde, Bend Or, Doncaster, to Stockwell, whom students of breeding rightly named a "Father of tho British Stud and the Emperor of Stallions." Orville receives his Stockwell strain through the best line extant. Stockwell sired three Derby winners in Blair Athol, Lord Lyon, and Doncaster. Sire of St. Leger and Bend Or (Derby winner). Ormonde was a sori of Bend Or, and after winning the Triplo Crown and other races, was sold for 30,000 guineas. ( Ormonde begat Orme, a great performer, and sire of Flying Fox, who, after winning the Derby, was sold for 37,500 guineas, the highest price ever paid for a horse Flying Fox won £50,000 in stakes. Orville'e dam, Shotover, won the Derby and Two Thousand Guineas, and was by Hermit from Stray Shot, a daughter of Toxophilite, tho siro of Musket. Flirt, the dam of Obligado, is by Trappist (soil of Hermit) from Frivolity, one of the great Agnes family. Flirt's grandsire, Hermit, was a Derby winner, and his dam. Seclusion, -waft also the dam of Steppe, who produced Step: niak Rusaley, She (dam of BobadiU, and Mahn.ki. In thiee removes bock in his pedigree Obligado claims «ix Derb'- v. r inrera, and inherits a combination of running blood that is rarely seen in a prchgree^ In addition to bsing so stoutly bred, Obligado fills the eye as an ideal Stallion, and' his first crop of foals are greatly admired. — TERMS : Thoroughbred Mares, 6gs; Halfbred Marer, 4gs. Grazing for mare? at Is Gd per week; also boxed ard f " /I if lequired.— Apph to J. 1 O'BRIEX, Oainaiu. J. LOUGKUKI, rjWJ RF CORRESPONDENT! BOX 199, P. 0., IXVKRCARGILL. Telegrams t "J. LOTJGHLIX, Invcrcargill." BARNETTJs GRANT. KACIKG COREESPONDEKTS. " Form sit a {■lance* For the Present Season, Compiled in a rfonf and More Concise Form than previously, is And will be POSTED FREE to anyone oig receipt of their address. Addreis Letters and Telegrama— fcAkM£TT GKANT, DUNEDIH BARNETT GRANT, CHRISTCHUKCM {