QUEEN'S PREMIUM SIRES. 145 



Amphion * (covering at 150 guineas), and 

 Craftoii, as well as an Arab and a smart 

 little horse suitable for crossing with cob 

 and pony mares, to the service of which 

 he is restricted. 



A most notable feature of this Stud is an 

 annual two days' show of young stock sired 

 by their horses, past or present, with sales 

 each day by Messrs. Tattersall, held in 

 September. This is a great convenience, 

 both to local breeders and purchasers from 

 a distance, avIio have thus a large number 

 of promising colts and fillies from which 

 to make their selection. That intending 

 purchasers sometimes return disappointed is 

 owing to the dearth of good mares to send 

 to such horses as the enterprising directors 

 of this Stud Company have got together, 

 the time-honoured delusion that any mare 



* Amphion's fee is reduced to 45 guineas. Grafton is 

 dead, and his place is filled by Suspender: The services of 

 both the.se hoi-ses are restricted to thoroughbred mares. 



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