RECENT STOCK IMPORTATIONS TO NEW SOUTH WALES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2549, 21 January 1903, Page 9

RECENT STOCK IMPORTATIONS TO NEW SOUTH WALES.

(Livo Stock Journal, September 19.) The year 1902, "Coronation Year," a« it •will probably go down to posterity, will leave many pleasant recoleclioni; of visits received from our kinsmen across the seas who not only came to revisit the Old Country, but to take back substantial mementoes of their trips in the shape of pure bred stock from our best breeders to further increase the studs of Greater Britain. These vieitois, like the swallows, are now preparing for migration to complete their all-round summertide of 1902, and carry with them our best wishes for a gocd voyage and .°afe return. The sight at the side of the good ship Moravian" as she lay last week in the Royal Albert Docks, shipping Captain Charley 'is stock, represented a strange mixture of ocean-going and agriculture with the patient highly-bred horses and handsome bulls, the unwieldy-looking boxes in which they were to travel suddenly moved by machinery with the greatest ease and placed side by side as though they were dominoes, and the attendants in charge seeing the last of their favourites.

The great Red Polled bull Champion proves too large for his box ; he is evidently "above normal" size, and -is quickly transferred into a larger one. At last the horses, which have been tested with mallein, and the cattle, -which" have been similarly dosed ■with tuberculin, are all safe on board, and a grand lot they look to export to Belmont Park, Richmond, New Sou*h Wales, wheie Captain Charley has a large stud, comprising pedigreed hackneys. Oleve'ands, and coaching stock. Lord Derby Junior 3742 and four Stud Book mares came from England in 1892, and twe Cleveland sires and seven mares had come out to Belmont tho previous yeai. The pedigreed Rod Polled cattle numbei over 50 females ; in 1891 Mr J. J. Colman's team of prize-winners, so ably selected by Mr George M'Cullooh, was exported at considerable cost to Bohnont, and were probably the beet exported up to that time to our colonies.

The handsome hackney stallions claim our chief attention, and first among these is Moncreiffe Statesman 7192 from bonny Scotland. Durchaset}. wjs understand, at « yery

' large figure from Sii. Robert Moncreiffe'a ! stud at Bridge of Earn, Perthshire. He is a rich bro\wr, the colour which ie wanted and so often wins, and standing 16 hands, with B£in of bone of the right eort below tho knee, he takes the eye at first sight, and when he moves "all rou"nd," as the Hackney men delight to see, power, bone, and quality united make him a most taking horse and well worthy of the breed. His breeding is hard to beat in any country, for is he not by Garton Duke of Connaught 3009, a grandson of Denmark 177, and his dam, Lady Salisbury 4183, was a daughter of a Lord Derby mare. Moncreiffe Statesman's showy ard career was a brief one, as his >wner preferred to reserve him for stud purposes, but when exhibited in Yorkshire in 1899 he carried off first prize at Maltcn, Poc'klington, and Market Weighton. In ISOO he won first at the Great Highland Society's show in Scotland, and in 1901 he was first at Glasgow, and at Edinburgh carried off the challenge cup and tho Hackney Horse Soelety'6 silver medal far Hie bost stallion of any age. He was always much admired when shown, particularly by those who appreciate the tru9 harness type of hackney. Vanity Fair 6224 next claims attention, looking his full 15hds 2£in, with the blackbrown hardy colour which is wanted. He is a long, low horse that carries himself in stately, confident style, and has done good service in Mr Burdctt Coutts' celebrated stud which is maintained in the north of London, and where high prices are realised at the periodical sales bald there. Vanity Fair's sire Last Fashion 434-3 was out of a grand Yorkshire Fireaway more, a noted breeder; and combining this Fireaway strain and -the old Norfolk Confidence blood, uniting power, courage and quality in the mixture. The Yorkshire Coaching stallion Count Rkby, No. 2256 in the Yorkshire Coach I Horse Society's Stud BooV, is a dark brown bay five-year-old, standing lo^hds, B|in below the knee, with the grand long re-ach and blood appearance that Yorkshircmcn and all lovers of a "coacher" admire. Bred in the county by Mr John Parker, "West Cottingwith, York, and the property of Mr i George Burton in the Selby country, he won j first prize at tho Great Yorkshire show this yeae. His sire Lord RLsby 1402 was a son of Prince >f Wales 371. and his fine top and good action are well worthy of his old north-country descent. The Red Polled cattle of Norfolk have done good service in the colony. The young j bulls are used for crossing, and are found to j combine the dairy and beef qualities now j wanted. Champion (T. 1) 5370, a wellknown bull in th# English showyards, comes first tinder notice in this shipment. This handsome bull, bred by Mr Garre-tt Taylor, won first and champion at the Royal Agricultural Society's show at York in 1900, be- . sides a lona: string of honours at the saane society and local shows. He was then in the possession of Mr Platt, who ha, purc^a^ed him for 320gns at the late Mr J. J. Col man's sale at Easton. Norfolk. Weighing over a ton, ho would probably now if i fatted turn the scale at 25cwt, ond cc-m-i bined with this recommendation for beof , is the fact that his da,m Coronet II gave in ! three successive years' milkingi?, 45851b, ' 87701b, and 59521b of milk. Champion come* ! now from the Hon. A. E. Fellowes' herd •^at Honingham, Norfolk, where he was the • service sire, and accompanying him is the grand young two-year-old Antic 7799, not obtained under a very tempting price, ac I ho was e-xpeotrd to be hearij of again had he 1 remained in this country. He weighs over I 15£owt now, and was bred at Honingham, I ajid combines two good milking families ; through his sire Pope 4581 and his dam Auburn 9969. Auburn's mother Anemone gave 91131b milk as the year's record. A celebrated bull show m?kc; up Mho red trio. Magician (N. 4) 5021. after winning j first nnd champion at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show at Maidstone. 1899, and many other prizes, wa^ used by his owner. Mr Harvey Mason, and sold at hi 3 j sale at Npoton to Air Blofield, from whom Captain Charley now s puroha=rn him. His I sire was the famous show bull Majiolini 3600, who gained many prizes for thr» Nreton herd, and his dam Memr-ris gave 59181b of milk in 1891, which yielded, on the care-fully-kept rreords by the Bahroek test at Necton. 4.32 percentage of butter fat and 255.651b butter. She is descended from the original old Rose if the old Neotcn stock. The Moravian thus catries out a particularly fine lot of cattle, and wo vi«h their spirited cwuei and Mc*srs .Tolin Thornton and Co.. who acted for him in this exportation, good luck to a valuable cargo.