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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1482, 19 September 1918, Page 4

LEADING SIRES — continued. TO STAND THIS SEASON AT TE AWAMUTU. The Highly Successful Thoroughbred Sire, SPALPEEN (3X BY GOSOON (3), IMP.—WINDMILL. SPALPEEN was a brilliant two-year-old and a high-class hurdle horse, and as sire of El Gallo (winner of the double Great Northern Hurdles and Great Northern Steeplechase two years in succession), Waimai (winner of the N.Z. Grand National and Great Northern Steeplechases), Troublesome (winner of Adelaide Grand National Steeplechase), Tararu Jack, Toreador, Slang, Ditto, Spalfish, Fionnuala, Glendalough, Kaween and other good winners has made a great name, considering his limited opportunities. Limited to a few more approved mares at 15 guineas, his list being nearly full. Further particulars from KAVANAGH AND WE AX., TE AWAMUTU. mo STAND THIS SEASON AT x TE MAHANGA. THE THOROUGHBRED HORSE, MOUNTAIN KNIGHT (MOUNTAIN KING—LA VAILLE) Sire MOUNTAIN KING, by Wallace (son of Carbine and Melodius), dam Bonnie Rosette (imp.), by Barcaldine, dam Bonnie Rose. Dam LA VEILLE, by Mostyn, imp. (son of Clairvaux and Miss Mostyn), dam Vigil, by Trenton, dam Nightmare. The stakes won by this horse were over £lO,OOO. Mountain Knight won Sydney Tattersail’s Club Nursery Handicap, A.J.C. Derby (beating Woorak, Carlita and Naxbiry) , V.R.C. Linlithgow Stakes, V.R.C. C.B. Fisher Plate (beating Carlita, St. Carwyne, Poafiiatus, etc.), V.R.C. St. Leger, A.J.C. St. Leger. Terms: 20 guineas. Graxing free to December 81. Grooming 10/6. Bvery care taken but no responsibility. For further particulars apply The Exoi-h. Est. Late W. J. Douglas, TE MAHANGA, NAPIER. Telegrams: Te Mahanga, Hastings. /pO STAND NEAR HAMILTON. WINTERBOURNE <l4> A handsome, rich quality, 16-hand, well-proportion, muscular, dark bay or brown horse, with nearly 8% inches of clean sound bone, and good feet. Sire MARTIAN (1), leading New Zealand sire, and, like his half brothers BONIFORM and Sungod, a good performer, their dam, OTTERDEN, being by the great English racehorse and sire SHEEN (2), by Hampton. MARTIAN is the best sire by MARTAGON south of the line. Dam NEVA, 14 (dam of Danube, winner of over 5000sovs, and five other winners in New Zealand and Australia), by Stepniak (5), a good racehorse and sire of more winners and more dams and sires of winners than any horse bred in the Dominion, the number including ALL RED (great stayer and weight carrier) and the respective dams of WARSTEP, SASANOF. DANUBE, NANNA, and others by Martian, and King Billy, Aborigine and Maori King by Merriwee, and scores by other sires. Stepniak’s sister, SHE, produced the great BOBADIL (still a leading sire in Australia with a wonderful average) and another sister, STEPFELDT, is the dam of those brilliant performers and sires, PROVOCATION and ELEVATION, and that great horse REPUTATION, by Martian. The Martian-Step-niak combinations are unsurpassed. NEVA’S dam, WHIRLPOOL (dam of the N.Z. Cup winner, GRAND RAPIDS), was got by ST. GEORGE (brother to CHESTER and sire of Merry England, Mount Royal and Au Revolr) from Watersprite (sister to NATATOR, a first-class performer and champion sire of all-round horses, hurdlers and ’chasers, and to Nautilus (dam of Chainshot, Cynisca and Pygmalion), by Traducer (the most notable sire of his time in the southern hemisphere) from Waterwitch (daughter of Mermaid and dam of Lurline, Castaway and Le Loup and other celebrities. Lurline, dam of Darebin. WINTERBOURNE ran second as a two-year-old in the Dunedin Stakes and beat a field of 16 in the Plunket Nursery of five furlongs (Wellington), in 60 seconds. Terms: £5 55.; good grazing. All other particulars from F. C. LOUGHLIN. HAMILTON. CONQUEROR (2> ’ 1895 (MEDALLION — SIESTA). WILL BE STATIONED IN THE GISBORNE DISTRICT EARLY IN SEPTEMBER. CONQUEROR still retains much of those majestic looks which on 27 occasions placed him First and Champion in the .principal Show Rings of the Wellington and Palmerston districts. Although justly celebrated as a racehorse (£lB3O as a two-year-old) and as a sire (stock winning about £40,000 in Australia and New Zealand), he is even more so for his marvellous vitality and constitution. “Age cannot wither him nor custom stale his infinite variety.” Fees according to grade and time required for payment; £4 4s. to £lO 10s. H. D. IRWIN, Opotiki. N.Z. MOTOR & CYCLE JOURNAL. Published Monthly. Of all Newsagents and BookseUers. PRICE, 6d.