A CLEVER AD.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XI, Issue 551, 11 July 1901, Page 15

A CLEVER AD.

The following ad., which appeared in a Manchester, England, paper, September 16th, 1829, was recently unearthed by the Lot don sporting paper, The “ Referee ” : SPANKER. The property of O—D—, Saturday, the 16th of September next, will be sold, or set up for sale, at Skibbsrdeen: A strong, staunch, steady, sound, safe, sinewy, serviceable, strapping, supple, swift, smart, sightly, sprightly, spirited, sturdy, shining, surefooted, sleek, smooth, spunky, well-skinned, sized and shaped sorrel steed, of superlative symmetry, styled Spanker; with small star and snip, square sided, slender-shouldered, sharp sighted, and steps singularly stately ; free from strain, sprain, spavin, spasms, springhalt, sciatica, staggers, strangles, seeling, sellander, surfeit, s ams, strumous swellings, sorrances, scratches, splint, squint, scurf, sores, scattering, shuffling, shamb-ling-gait, or symptoms of sickness of any sort. He is neither stiff mouthed, shabby-coated, sinew-shrunk, spur-galled, saddle backed, shelltoothed, slim-gutted, surbated, skin-scabbed, short winded, splay footed, or shculder-slipped, and is sound in the sword-point and stifle joint. He has neither sick spleen, sleeping-evil, set fast, snaggle-teeth, sand crack, subcutaneous sores or shatter hoofs ; nor is he scur, sulky, surly, stubborn or sullen in temper. Neither shy nor skittish, slow, sluggish or stupid. He never slips, strips, strays, stalks, starts, stops, shakes, snivels, snuffles, snorts, stumbles or stalks in his stall or stable, and scarcely or seldom sweats. Has a showy, stylish switch of the tail or stern, and a safe set of shoes on ; can feed on stubble straw, sedge or Scotch grass. Carries sixteen stone with surprising speed in his stroke over a six-foot sod or stone wall. His sire was the Sly Sobersides on a sister of Spindle Shanks, by Sampson, a sporting son of Sparkler, who won the sweepstakes and subscription plate last session

at Sligo. His selling price sixty-seven pounds sixteen shillings and sixpence sterling.