STUD NEWS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1429, 13 September 1917, Page 18

STUD NEWS.

The stud horse Masterpice, by Clanranald from Madowla, is advertised to be at the service of breeders this season. He is a most commanding horse and was not only a good horse himself but a member of a very distinguished family, a number 2 horse on both sides, with plenty of sire as well as of running blood well up. He was rather overgrown to do much at two years old, but he nevertheless won the Dunedin Stakes and C.J.C.

Nursery Handicap at that age and next season won the C.J.C. New Zealand Derby and the Burke Memorial at Hawke’s Bay, the Wanganui Stakes fell to the portion of this horse and races at Wellington and Canterbury not mentioned in his advertist ment, and was second in such important races as the C.J.C. Champagne Stakes, Canterbury Cup, Great Autumn Handicap, New Zealand Cup and St. Leger Stakes. No doubt had he not been required to race so early as he did he would have raced beyond his fifth year had he been asked to do so. Quarryman and King’s Guest, his half brothers by Bill of Portland, were good horses and King’s Guest lias proved himself a good sire. Glenowlet, h s older sister, was a most brilliant performer, and all along the line her descendants have been such as to make her stand out as one of New Zealand’s most noted stud gems. The amount of money and importance of the races they have won being sufficient to establish her in a very high position. Masterpiece will stand this season in North Canterbury at a fee of 10 guineas, and application can be made for his services to Mr. J. Barcley, Sefton, or Mr. W. A. Nicholls, Belfast. The h ghly successful standard-bred imported sire of pacers and trotters, Harold Dillon, who since his sojourn in this country has proved himself a high class sire of speed as well as staying performers, of which he has a long list, whose achievements have ranged from winning at a mile to three miles. A perusal of the adver; isement, which appears on an earlier page, w2th the names of his chief winners and their respective times, will satisfy as to his stock-getting qualifications. His progeny have won upwards of £17,000 and nearly 150 races.