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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume V, Issue 211, 9 August 1894, Page 11

ADVERTISEMENTS. ■'■ .. ' .. .... ' .... . ■ . . . ■ - ■ . ~ - ■■■ - -- - - ' —— — TO STAND THIS SEASON, —at EPSOM HOTEL, EPSOM, AUCKLAND, THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE “EROS.” EBOS is a beautiful bright bay with black points, standing 16 hands 1 inch high, and full of quality, and of the very best of tempers. Eros is the only son left in New Zealand of that wonderful mare Idalia, whose sons, Sir Modred and Cheviot are now the champion sires of America. TERMS : THOROUGHBRED MARES, £lO 10s. EBOS, 1888. Idalia (imp.) (dam of Sir Modred, Cheviot, &o.) Sr. Ghobgb (brother to Chester) Camb^r° t Cheater (imp.) Y.tte.ao,,. PriestessDeJby&l^?| T he ArTOW Aufltre y Stockwell [Cassandra Sir Hercules S?HHJJI M M % % $ ihf? f ? " h Ii?? r 1 £ Ua , i_!_2 a s gates’ fgteg s l * l f? WWIiFW ST mfi In ri fi tf -} if t p rty If i gs g s,- M gK *b? I- 2 ' 8? I s I? <TS? IT3 §•§■ i g LX * s £si gl H - N l Iri mF g a I? i P *M- • h r•* if W < 1 r li g[”

Idalia, dam of Eros, is also the dam of such celebrities as Betrayer, Sir Modred, Cheviot. Liverpool, Fair Nell, Ravensworth, &c. Betrayer won the Canterbury Champagne Stakes, Canterbury Cup, Wanganui Cup, and Timaru Cup. Sir Modred commenced by winning the Dunedin and Canterbury Champagne Stakes as a two-year-old ; the Canterbury Derby and Dunedin Cup as a three-vear-old. As a four-year-old Sir Modred was* hardly seen out; but as a five-year-old the first day of the C.J.C. Metropolitan Meeting he cantered home from a large field in the Free Handicap with 9.2 on his back, and next day defeated champions like Welcome Jack, Cheviot and Vanguard at weight for age in the Canterbury C;p ; and the third day with penalties again put down all opponents in the weight for age race. Sir Modred was then taken to Australia, where he set the seal on his victorious career by carrying 8.10 to the front in the Sydney Great Metropolitan Stakes, and by defeating the mighty Malua and others in the Craven-Plate. Cheviot won the Canterbury Derby, Christchurch Cup, and other races before finishing his career as a four-year-old. His half-brother Liverpool won the Welcome Stakes, while the daughters of this celebrated family also obtained their fair share of success—Fair Nell by winning the Great Autumn Handicap, and Ravenswing by appropriating the Dunedin City Stakes Handicap, and like her sister the Gieat Autumn Han- ? A dicap as well. Idalia, the dam of Eros, as a brood mare, is well worthy to take rank with the famous old-time mares Penelope, dam of Whalebone and Whisker, or of the Alexander Mare, dam of Selim Ruebens and Castrel, or of the more recent but equally celebrated Pocahontas, dam of Stockwell, Rataplan and King Tom; for, like these celebrated English matrons, Idalia’s sons have already become known far and wide by their phenomenal success as stud horses in America, where Sir Modred and Cheviot are now located. The former in three years became second on the list of winning sires, and getting such a wonder as the champion three-year-old of that vast continent, viz., Tournament. A late Ajnerican paper says: ««The progeny of Sir Modred have been doing well since the opening of the season; Dr. Hasbrouk. Courtship, Integrity, Masterlode, Fairplay, Shellback, and Sir Walter have all won ' races and added to the fame of their illustrious sire.” Whilst the doings of Cheviot’s stock this season as two-year-olds bid fair to rival, if not excel this extraordinary performance. In the first two weeks of the season’s racing Cheviot’s stock won nine out of twelve races; and a late Ameri. can piper says.—“ At the Blood Horse Meeting Cheviot's progeny started in twenty races, winning twelve, and running second three times. This is an excellent record, and one which may never be excelled by any single sire.” X For further particulars apply to

TWENTYMAN WILSON, ■ Gboom Fb? sb. Owib ( or Groom in Charge.