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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1485, 10 October 1918, Page 4

LEADING SIRES OF THE SEASON.

NOTICE TO STVDMABTEBS. We wish to direct the attention of the owners of stallions to the special opportunities offered through the columns of the “ New Zealand Sporting and Dramatic Review ” for bringing under the notice of breeders thoughout the Dominion the leading sires that are available during the present season. The “Review” each week reaches racing and trotting men in every corner of New Zealand, and no betten medium for advertising the different stallions that will be at the service of breeders during the next few months could be obtained than this widely read paper. Announcements of stallions taking up stud duties will be inserted at a reasonable charge, and a special feature made of reproducing photographs of each sire, together with an article dealing with his pedigree, performances and other qualities. Any further particulars required may be obtained from the offices of the “N.Z. Sporting and Dramatic Review,” Box 52, Auckland.

STUD COMING SEASON. TE HAPARA, GISBORNE. HEATHERMIXTURE (IMP.), 12. By ST. SERF (8), Dam SPRIG OF HEATHER. (For extended Pedigree, see N.Z. Stud Book, Vol. VII.) This horse’s stock show great promise, and will be seen out during the coming Season. His list is limited to Stud Book Mares, ten or twelve of which will be booked at 12 guineas. For further particulars apply W. L. RUTLEDGE, Te Hapara, Gisborne. TO SERVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF APPROVED MARES. THE IMPORTED THOROUGHBRED HYMETTUS <l6) Sire CYLLENE, 9 (sire of four Derby winners), dam SWEET BALSAM, by Friar’s Balsam (2), dam Ennerdale, by Gaillard (13) dam Thirlemere, by DonCastor' (5) dam Windermere, by Macaroni (14) dam Miss Agnes, by Birdcatcher (11) dam Agnes, by Clarion (6). CYLLENE was a good winner himself and his son Polymelus (3) is now the leading sire in England. His sire Bona Vista (4) is one of the most successful of the sons of Bend Or, from the Isonomy (19) mare Arcadia, who was from The Hermit (5) mare Distant Shore, who was from Land’s End, by Trumpeter (1) from Faraway, by Young Melbourne (25) from Maid of Masham. HYMETTUS is rich in Stockwell and Touchstone strains,, and has already proved himself a worthy sire, member of the great Agnes family from which so many brilliant racehorses and sires have descended. . He was fourth on the list of winning sires in New Zealand last year, and with 20 winners of place money. Including that exceptionally fine colt Hymestra and his full sister Torfreda, has done better than most imported horses the same time at the stud. His progeny are sound and brilliant and for early speed commend themselves. He was a good horse himself, and has thus plenty of credentials for sire purposes. Eleven approved mares at 50 guineas. For full particulars apply to R. D. MORRISON, Blairlogie, Masterton. Telephone 818.

TO STAND THIS SEASON AT TE AWAMUTU. The Highly Successful Thoroughbred Sire, SPALPEEN (S) 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, 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 WEAL, TE AWAMUTU. CONQUEROR (MEDALLION — SIESTA). IS NOW STATIONED AT PATUTAHI, NEAR GISBORNE. CONQUEROR still retains many 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 (£1330 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, Patutahi Hotel, near Gisborne.