WAIMATE SUCCESS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 13 August 1921, Page 4

WAIMATE SUCCESS.

AT BRISBANE SHOW. Mr J. H. Mitehell, Waimate, was successful at the Brisbane Show with the stallions Foch and Operator. Mr Mitchell, as Messrs Mitchell and O’Brien, was responsible, for sending Marshal Foch to Australia in 1919, selling the stallion to MrKeswiek, on the Darling Downs (Queensland). Marshal Foeh’s sire was Baron Everest. Operator, sired by Baron Bold, was taken over the same year. Mr Mitehll has had remarkable success with the Clydesdales he has sent to Australia. The winner of the ehampionship ribbons at the Sydney aud Melbourne Royal shows last year was Scotland’s Viceroy, sent over by Messrs Mitchell and O’Brien. For a number' of years Plucky Willie, another New Zealand horse, which went across per the same medium, was a winner at the Sydney .Royal Show, and another horse, Onward, by Agitator, was champion at the Melbourne Royal Show for many years. Then a couple of horses from Scotland won for a year or two. Messrs Mitchell and O’Brien then took over a horse Dalmuir who won in Melbourne. Then Scotland’s Viceroy came on the scene, as stated. For the last two or three years the South Australian championship has been held by a Mitchell and O’Brien horse and for many years in West Australia they had the same satisfaction of seeing a horse they sent across annex the championship.