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Western Star, Issue 125, 29 January 1876, Page 2

ip R'A NK ; H,E N DEESOS, - .SADDLER & HARNESS MAKER, Palmersf,on-street, Riverton, -s (Next door to Old Saddler’s Shop). Horses Carefully Fitted. ILL STAND .THIS SEASON At Mr Jas. Noble’s Farm, Wallucetown, . . ‘ And will Travel the Waikivi, Wall a ceto wn; Waianiwa, Waimatuku, Jacob’s River, and Riverton Districts, and will serve a liiriited number ■ of. mares, TEE PURE BRED CLYDESDALE ENTIRE HORSE, v “CONQUEROR” PEDIGREE. . : '3?he really grand imported entire liorse Conquerar was bred bv. the famous breeder, Robert Wetberspoon, Newbigging, County, of Linlithgow, Scotland. Conqueror was . selected in Scotland and imported' to Australia by the well-known judge, Mr George Bookless, and on.Lis arrival in .Melbourne he, was purchased from Messrs Bookless by Messrs A. &L. Grant, of Islington,‘at a very high price, and was recently purchased at Messrs M'Culloch, Campbell & Co.’s sale for the sum of six hundred-guineas. Conqueror-is a rich dapple, bay, with black points, stands 16 bands 2 inches high, has great si length of bone, is very powerful, with b-autiful Symmetry; is 1 good tempered, and without a blemish. Conque.-or is got iy the famous entire, Scottish Champion, which horse was l purchased from Mr John Park, Bishbpton, Glasgow, when two years old. for tbe sum of £l5O. Before Mr Park sold him ne gained five first prizes, and when four years old he gained the first prize of £25 at Dalkeith. At the cud, of the same year he was soil to the Duke of Norfolk. Master of the Horse to Her Majesty the Queen, since which time he.has g«l first-class stock m Scotland. (Signed) Robert Wetherspoon, Newbigging, County of Linlitngow. .Conqueror’s dam was by the far-famed horse;Sir ’Walter Scott (the property of the Duke of Hamilton) . which horse never was beaten. He gained the prize-in London, value £2OO, in 1882, •against allcomers. Conqueror’s g. dam. Blossom, gained first as a mare with foal at foot, and first as a dry inare.

Conqueror,;,before leaving'Scotland, gained three first prizes as a yearling, first at Linlithgow, first at'Wliitbouvne, and.first afc.Midcahler. lie also gained' two first prizes in Victoria, namely,’ first at .Melton,,-and'first at Ballun, and also first at the Soul lihmd A gnenltupl and Pastoral 'Society’s grand" Show.‘opert to all comers, last year. , These are-the only times he was exhibited, gaining first honors on each o'ccasidn. ' Conqueror has proved'hiinselfa sure foal-getterof first-class stock Hiestoek took fiisf arid IliirdatS&eatonSho'iv,first at Haylesford.. first and second at Melton, and first at Ballan - ; arid his progeny, ns yearlings and two years old, are fetching high prices. Three two-year-old fillies were sold in Adelaide, one for £Oll, one for £ll2, and one filly, Highland Mary, bred by Mr Brown, realised £l21 —thus showing Conqueror .to be one of-the truest bred Clydesdale sires in the Southern (Signed) John Manuel Alexander#, Latjgkhlan Gbant Islington. Season to commence on Ist October, 1875, ending Ist February, 1876- Every care will be taken of mares sent to the horse, but without responsibility. A first-class English Grass Paddock provided fer ,Mares sent to .Conqueror, at Mr Jas. Noble’s, Wallaeeto wn,' at 2s. 6d. per week. Tortus—£4 each mare ; Groom’s Fee, 5s — • parable at the end of the season. JOHN MTNTOSH, > „ . . THOMAS PATTEIISGN, j r~°Prie™rß- - T- ‘ ■ , N.B.—The owners of the above Horse are will* •* frig to go in a Sweep of Five Guineas with owners of other Entires, : for the Five Best Yearlings, the progeny of a'riy'dnri si : re’in 1877/. TO STAND /mJS .'SEASON, AND TRAVEL THK WESTEEN DISTRICT;^.t ■J 0.1 site. tiiiL ■r. VPEEMIUM T IEER 11 -AT ' "“LATE 1 IEKTIRE :I'; ’ “ The Entire Horse 1 " ' O®HHA M P I 0 N .By Black ChaiiipioW, imported 1 from Tasmania ky Wr. Burrows, Esq., and . sold at the hammer 1 'fcl ! MffEornhfil,pf Centre Young Champion's grani sire’is 'Black Champion, im-t ported from Qr?at BtttaaiVMjyVY Gee, Esq,, of' at the sum,- of £9OO j the dam of Xoung Champion, imported from Tasmania by *My Burrows, and sold to Mr Luwsori for £95. The dam's Bira is -that celebrated horse M.atcliJws, which never has been surpassed, imported by W. Dyer, Esq., of /Tasmania, afc the cost of £im Young Champion is rising four years old, stands 16| hands high, dark chesnut, with i.apital shorl hairy legs, and splendid Action, Gained the Jfrst prize afc the Agricultural Show at Invercargill in 1873 as the*brist tw'o-veaf dl,t j gained libe premium offered by the ’ Weaieru Hi.u-.cfr j'mmi dob fur a hofrito travel the district, show of entires held .in Slvwloa, Ha j* gone rally aeknowle ig • i by iffhe 'best, horse eier bred . "Terms : £4-45, payable at end of season. For further particulars, apply io JjA-dito Ha.lt.-