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Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 56

TO STAND THIS SEASON (1928) At HAYTON, PUKEURI, Five Miles from Oamaru. THE HIGHLY BRED IMPORTED PACING STALLIONFOUR CHIMES. Sire, ABBEY BELLS. Dam, F. B. Abbey Bells is by Bow Bells (Electioneer—Beautiful Bells) out of Russia (Harold —Miss Russel). F.B. is by the imported Blackwood Abdallah (Homer — Blackwood mare) out of Stockings (Mercury—White Stockings). FOUR CHIMES is the sire 5f that great horse Cathedral Chimes, who has won such races as the New Zealand and Auckland Trotting Cups, the Free for All. and the Canterbury Park Champion Handicap, of £lOOO (twice). Cathedral Chimes also got Ahuriri, that won the Ashburton Sapling Stakes, the Wellington Gold Cup, and the wonderful performance of winning two New Zealand Trotting Cups. Kohara won the New Zealand Sapling Stakes, the New Zealand Derby, Champion Stakes, the Auckland Cup, and last year’s New Zealand Trotting Cup. Taurekareka won the New Zealand Sapling Stakes, the Champion Stakes, the Great Northern and New Zealand Derbies in record time, still holding the record of 3min 29sec for the race. Taraire, also by Four Chimes, won the great Australasian championship, run at Perth. Western Australia, beating the famous Great Bingen. It is said that Taraire possesses the greatest staying power of any horse seen in New Zealand for many years. A glance at the above performances will convince breeders of trotting stock that they have at their service a sire that has proved himself one of the best sires ever seen in the Dominion. TERMS: 10 GUINEAS; payable Ist January, 1929. Groom’s fee, ss. Good grazing—Dry mares, 2s; foal mares, 3s. Any mares proven not in foal will be taken again next season free of charge. All care will be taken of mares, but no responsibility. All mares consigned to JOHN JOHNSTON, Hayton, Pukeuri Junction, will be carefully attended tOi