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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 35, 6 January 1883, Page 1

Horses; The Thoroughbred Stallion MORPHEUS will- travel the Palmerston r ;Feilding, and Sanson Districts this seasoD. • is a golden chestnut, jyjL T standing 16 hands 3 inches ; thoroughly, sound m all respects. He . is 5 yeara old, an 4 by that fast and wellknown horse Castaway, dam Somnambula by ToTrtbn, dam. Opera by Ilßarbatie, dam Cassandra by Priam; Towton by Melbourne ; Castaway by Tra« ducer, dam Mermaid. Morpheus comes from, a great, racing family, claiming ' some aristocratic and highi-ciass per» formers as his relatives; His site won the Wellington Gup and ran second for the Canterbury Derby and Great Autumn Handicap.. He is full brother to Lurline and Le Loup. The perform* ances of these animals m New Zealand . and Australia- need no comment. Le . JLoup.wqn the Qanterbury : «J. O. Handicap and^Cup m 1880. Opera, grand dam of c Morpheus, won the Canterbury ■ Derby m 1864. Tainbourini was also from Opera, by Towton; and won, amongst other races, the Canterbury J. . C. handicap, and Canterbury and W ellington Cups, . besides performing sue* cessfully over \ hurdles. Salvage by Castaway ran'second for the 1 Wellington ; Cup last year, giving the winner a- year and a pounds. Won the" Great Autumn . Handicap; atjChristchurch, -and is nomi- ," nated for the Melbourne Cup. : Terms, £5, sfi i groom a^e fee. For further; particulars apply to F^ANK PALMER. To' Travel jtbi; . Seaßori, m the Eangi- ,* tikei and Manawatu Districts, " the Thoroughbred Entire Horse DIOMEDES. "TYI()3£E.D BS by Totara,. dam Plover, IJ- by Sir Hercules-rFor particulars Bee Ijew^Zealand': Btud Book. Plover is the dam of Malvina and other winners^ Diomedes stands sixteen arid a- ■-■ half hands, is a rich bay with black >« points, and well suited to improve the fereei of horses such as are required for useful purposes. Tbbms —Single Mare, £4. : • . ■ Tw6 or ; more, the bona fide . property of one owner, £3 10s. Apply to the owner -' JOHN STEVENS; : -,-s ' . :Qt the Groom m Charge. To Travel this Season m the Palmerston^ and Manawatu Districts, The Pprebred Clydesdale f r - 'Entire Horse OF THE VALLEY. PRINCE OF THE VALLEY, by Royal Conqueror out of Gipsy, by : Clyde Champion (imported), out of , J. Andrews* well-known mare Polly, by Farmer^ (imported), and grand dam (imported). Royal Conqueror, a pure Clydesdale^ took first prize at Battergea as a twdryear-old, 'at tlie United : Exhibition of the Royal A gricultural Society of England \ and the Royal Highland Society^ and was therefore ' entitled to be regarded 1 as the beßt colt ! m England andScotlaud m his' year. He was selected and imported for Mr , H. Jledwood by the Hon., W, Robinson. 'Gipsy has taken/two first prizes at the ; Richmond Agricultural Show. ■ ' Prince of the Valley took first prize ; " at the Richmond Agricultural Show for three-year-olds m 1875, first prize for • provincial bred m 1876,, first prize for provincial bred m 1877, and also first prize against all, comers, beating the ' imported horses Sir Walter Scott and General 4 Prince of the Valley will be at Ashutat every Mondays Wood ville. Tuesday, Palmerston, Wednesday, Awahuri Thursday, Jackey town Friday, Palmerston Saturday. ; " Terms. — Single Marcs, £3 10s ; ref ; - : doction two or more mares; grooniage fee,2s6di Fees payable on or before .. Ist February . Paddocking free for three weeks. Every care taken but no responsibility. . . For further particulars apply to the Groom m charge at the Royal Hotel. 1 ; TO ADVERTISERS. • A DVEETISEMENTS for the daily -•'• J\. cbuntry edition mttßt be left at the office by 1 p.m., and for the town edition riot latbr than 3 p.m. : . N.B.— AU advertiaements appear m '- both town and ; country editions without extra charge to' advertisers. ■ " '-. i- ,■;— i. — . — - t- — - ~* ; TTIHE Makawatu Standabd is the ''..'■■ X only ' Palmerston paper that has • any drcnlation m Fielding or the Manchester Block, m which it has a daily " bona 'fide issue of over three hundred copies,