THE BLAIRLOGIE STUD DISPERSAL.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1507, 13 March 1919, Page 9

THE BLAIRLOGIE STUD DISPERSAL.

Bloodstock sales of the same importance to breeders and racing men have never been held in the Wairarapa as that of the Blairlogie Stud, which is to be dispersed on March 21, at Masterton, on account of the death of the owner, the late Mr. R. D. M. Morrison. There are 21 choice thoroughbred mares, five thoroughbred yearlings and the two stud

, , «■ J - - »■ -• r . I . . ► horses Hymettus (imported) and Acrostic, making in all 28. The sale is to be held without reserve at the Club Hotel Stables, commencing at 1.30 p.m. The mares include the dams of a number of first-class performers by Hymettus and other sires and are nearly all stinted to the imported sire, who has during his brief career at the stud left a lot of winners, including that very brilliant young horse Hymestra and Torfreda. The yearlings comprise a filly by imported Kilbroney from imported Grey Linnet, a colt by imported King Mark from Simois, a cole by Hymettus from Idealea, and fillies by King Mark from Balama and Temeraire. The mares were selected for the purpose of starting a stud for the Wairarapa, and it is hoped that settlers will make an effort to keep them there and thus carry out the plans projected by their late owner. It is as necessary that some stock raisers should breed good thoroughbreds as that others should raise good sheep and bullocks and dairy stock, and those who have good pasturage and the money to spare might find it profitable to have a brood mare or two on their properties, selling their progeny if not disposed to race them.