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Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1288, 30 September 1880, Page 4

Stud News.

.ww _ s££& rrtHE Pure-bred /yl//jW PRESIDENT the District this season as follows :—: — Mondays — At Mr Jobi Bell's stable, Pukerimu Tuesdays — Through Pukerimu and Ohaupo Wednesdays — Te Rore, PateraDgi Road and Te Awamutu Thursdays — Kihikihi Remainder of the week at his stable, Rangiaohia Terms — Single mares, £2 15s;' two or morej £2 10s each. Groomage, 2s 6d. Grazing at pacldook, Is 6d per week. All payments to be made on or before the lßt January, 1881. J. G. BERRY. 28th September, 1880. Two Silver Cupa, value £5, w' 1 ! be given for the two best foals from President. Best heavy draught colt or filly, and best medium draught colt or filly, to be shown as yearlings in 1881.

travel to TE AWAMUTU, The Thorough-bred Stallion HIPPOCAMPUS. Pedigree— Hippocampus by Dainty Ariel, dam Fanny Fisher, out ot Coquette by Fisherman (sire of Maribyrnong) by Heron, Dainty Ariel, out of Althea (taster to Cassandra, dam of Yattendon) by Riddlesworth by Emilius, Coquette by Launcelot (own brother to Touchstone) out of Abaft by Sheet Anchor. From the above pedigree it will be seen that owners of mires can get the very best combination of stout and fast blood to be obtained in the Southern hemisphere, vide the grand performances of the stock of the above sires — Dainty Ariel, Maribyrnoug, and Yattendon. Terms — Thorough-bred mares, £10 10s; half-bred marcs, £b" 6s. Paddocks for marcs at Mr. Garland's, where every care will be taken, but no responsibility incurred. The above Horse will leave his box on Mondays for the purpose of travelling to Te Awamutu via Narrow's Bridge, remaining at the Ohaupo Hotel from 10 to 12 a.m., arriviug at Te Awamutu ou evening of same day, where he will remain until Wednesday. From thence to Hewitt's Hotel, Cambridge, and home Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. There will bo no business of any kind done on Sundays. Parties wishing to send marcs can rely upon every attention being pikl them, for which Is per week will be charged for grazing. WILLIAM WALTERS.

kwv^. T>LACK CH AMLfiflS?-^ PION will serve Jf > jp^w^f Mares this season at •j t ''tsjc^' !^- Pencarrow Farm. Single Mares, £'6; two or move at £2 10s each. No Groomage. Paddocks Is per week. All care taken but no responsibility. Pedigree.

Black Champion is a jet black. He is 7 years old, stands 17 hands high, has great strength of bone, beautiful symmetry, superior action, fine temper, has proved himself a sure foal-getter, and is considered by judges to be as fine a colt of his age as ever was bred in Otago. When a year old lie gaine' l firat prize at Taieri, and also first prize at Tokomairiro ; when two years old, first prize at Tokomairiro, second at Taieri ; when three years old, first prize at Tokomairiro. His sire is the celebrated horse Marquis (imported), who gained 17 first «nd o second prizes in Victoria ; was bought by I*. Miller, Dunedin. In Otago, he gained 2! first and 3 second prizes. Marquis is sire to more prize-taking sires than any other horse South of the line. Marquis' sire, old Prince Charlie, well-knowu in Victoria to be tho best horse ever impoited. Maggie, dam of Black Champion, gained -1 fh>t and 2 second prizes at Taieri, and 2 first and 1 second ut Tokomuiriro. Maggie is by old Black Champion, who gdiued, before leaving Scotland, 8 first and 2 second prizes; when 3 years old, one £.50 piemium ; und when 5 years old. when landed in Victoria in 1862, one £50 premium; gained first prize at Ballarat, and, snims year, first at Smpaton. He was sold to <ro to New Zealand for £020, and gained fir.st prize, 1863 and 1864, at Taieii, Ot-'igo, aud afterwards died. tfi-f'This proves BLACK CHAMPION to be jis good blood as was ever bred in tho Colonies.

J. & W. MARTYN.

*Or^>^*ft.Vi7 * -*- Season. Wff The Superior i^&JUh&lfr* Thorousrh-brod Kutire "HBBCUIB S," Bred by Mr Murphy, of Spring Creek, and raced by Mr Redwood. Got by Rfivwn&worth, <Lvn "Plover, by Sir Hercules, Ravens worth by Touchstone, Fair Je.m by Yer.iluin, I'air Queen by Pantaloon. IJcrf'ules is a l>;iy hor*e, 8 yfars old, ana !-t'indh l-5f hiuids hiuh, combines the best of Wood Mith good bone und immense power, and has proved himself a good horse on the turf. At the Canterbury meeting in 1876, won the Grandstand Handicap, 1 rniJc, in 1 mm. .30 sees., carrying 8 st. 2 lbs., beating G others. In tlie same year Avon the Hivvvkct,' Bay Stakes, 2 miles, iv 4 mins. 4} sees., beating Fishhook and tho Maori Weed. Hercules will travel ou and after Ist October, calling at the undermentioned places : — Mondays — Leave Cambridge, calling at Ohaupo and Alexandra. Tuesdays— Te Awamntu and Kihikihi Wednesdays — Kihikihi Thursdays— Will call at Rotorangi on his return to Mr W. K. Carter's, Cambridge, where he remains the rest of the week. Farms visited on the road. Terms— £o each mare. Two or more as arrangement. CHARLES LAKE.

Derby, will stand this season at — Ngaruawahia, Mondays Whatawhata, Tuesdays Te ilore and Harapepe, Thursdays Waitetuna, Fridays Andersons Farm, Wednesdays and Saturdays Young Derby is out of Fanny, got by Northern Hero out of Queen, an imported mare from Sydney. He is a rich dark bay, and stands 17.1. Took first prize as a yearling at the Auckand Show i n 187S, and first prize as a 2-year-old in 1879. Terms : 2 guineas to be paid at time of service ; Groomage, 2s 6d. For two or more mares as per agreement. Grazing- at 2s in good secure paddocks. MARK SMITH, Kuniwhauiwha, Whatawhata,