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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1589, 7 October 1920, Page 5

TO STAND TH I ' SEASON AT R. & i-m. SHEPHERD’S STABLES, LIN- WBMgfK WOOD AVENUE, W TH EPSOM. OUR THORPE By O.Y.M. (by Owyhee, 2.11, dam Mystery), dam LADY THORPE, by Young Irvington. Records: 2% miles, 5.12; two miles, 4.30; 1% miles, 2.41; mile, 2.5; last mile 2.5 2-5. Winner of both Free-for-all races run in New Zealand in 1915, beating Country Belle (4.22) on each occasion. O.Y.M. is the sire of Agathos (2 miles 4.28), Capriccio (2 miles, 4.33; 1% miles, 2.43; 1 mile, 2.12), Hoymetta (2 miles, 4.41; 1 mile, 2.17), Desdemona (1 mile, 2.14), 0.1. C. (2 miles, 4.43; 1 mile, 2.19), Gipsy King (1 mile, 2.19), My Lass (1% miles, 3.38), Doraldina, 2yrs. (1% miles, 3.35 1-5; 3yrs„ 11,4l 1 ,4 miles, 2.-4 S; 1% miles, 3.31), champion two and three-year-olds of N.Z. 1919 and 1920, winner of Sapling Stakes at two years, Derby and Champion Stakes at three, and many others. LADY THORPE is the dam of Weary (2.31), Lord Althorpe (4.42), Almond (2.18), Woodthorpe Maid (2.21). Weary has produced Sir Gavin (4.48). Lord Althorpe is the sire of Ariadne (2.14), and Woodthorpe Maid is the dam of Brown’s Nugget (trial 3yrs„ 2.12), thus showing that Lady Thorpe’s progeny are producers. OUR THORPE has all the qualifications for a successful sire. Terms: £l2 125., reduced to £lO 10s. if paid on or before January 1, 1921. Grazing 4/- week. Mares met at Remuera. E. YOUNG, Owner, rn O STAND THIS SEASON AT K AR AKA, GISBORNE. The Substantial, Quality-like, Highlybred Imported Racehorse, POLYDAMON <5) (A winner on flat and over hurdles.) SIRE POLYMELUS, 3 .(standing at the top fee of 300gns. in England, and sire of numerous high-class winners), by Cyllene, 9 (sire of three Derby winners and many famous horses and sires and dams of winners), dam Maid Marion (dam of Grafton, sire of Gaulus and Grafter, Melbourne Cup winners, and winners of about 210,000sovs in stakes in Australia), by Hampton, 10 (Derby), dam Quiver, a great stake winner, by Toxopholite (sire of Musket). DAM DAMIA (5), by DIAMOND JUBILEE, 7 (full brother to PERSIMMON, 7, both classic race and big stake winners and successful sires of winners and dams of winners), dam Amphitheatre, by Amphion (12), dam Reservation, by Wisdom (7), dam Reticent, by Vespasian (19), dam Seclusion, dam of Steppe (dam of Stepniak, the most successful sire bred in New Zealand), She (dam of Bobadil, the highly successful Australian sire), Stepfeldt (dam of Provocation, Elevation, and Reputation), etc. POLYDAMON ran in the Derby and Two Thousand Guineas, and won in England on the flat and over hurdles, and proved himself a stayer. He won at Ellerslie (Auckland) soon after his arrival. He stands 16 hands % meh, ' is a good stout constitutioned chestnut, nicely marked, and has size and muscular development, good bone and feet, and coming as he does from rare families on both sides should be an excellent mate for colonial-bred mares. Polydamon’s Booking for 1920, 2» guineas. For fuller particulars apply io owner ’ GAINE CARRINGTON, Makaraka, GISBORNE. - rpo STAND THE SEASON AT FITZROY, NEW PLYMOUTH. gl HALLOWMAS < 2O) - BY MARTAGON —HALLOWEEN. HALLOWMAS (20), imp., by Martagon, sire of Lilyveil (Sydney Cup), Martian (Canterbury Cup, Randwick Plate), from Halloween, half sister to San Martino, by Ayrshire, sire of Traquair, Orzil, Ayr Laddie, Downshire, etc., from Santa Maura, half sister to Musa (dam of Mousequeton), Mirska and also half sister to Maize (dam of Mondamin and Mazagan), by St. Simon, sire of Desmond, La Fleche, etc., from Palmflower, sister to Jenny Howlett (winner of Oaks), and dam of Chittabob, by The Palmer, brother to ' Rosicrucian (sire of Pulchra, ancestress of Multiform), from Jenny Diver, grand-dam of St. Florian, the sire of Ard Patrick), by Buccaneer (Ascot Gold Cup), tracing back to the daughter of Gascoigne’s Foreign horse, No. 20 family. Fee, 20 guineas. Good paddocking, ss. per week. Groom in Charge, D. Duffy. All care taken, but no responsibility. Groom’s fee, ss. For further particulars apply to P. JOHNSON, Owner, Fitzroy.