The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1828-03-10
Tie Celebrated Race House
SHAKESPEARE,

HsSlz.SI|oanly Of bedford. AID vii
he LEI To ii,ares st So tine seasou, payable the
2Jtl, December neSi The season will com
Inenee ga the Let March aud oad on the lst Au-
gust ned. $40 The single leap, payable at the
stable door, and $40 Tor insurance, payable as
snon a. tie mare u known 20 be IN ioal, trans
te,red one donr Ia be paid 10 The groom iOr
each uiare Very extensive and excellent pas
tasge, aud mares fed according to directions,
a. low as can be afforded, Dnt no responsibility
ior escapes or accidents
HAkSPEAEE is full FIVE feet four inches
high. a fne bay, beautifully marked, Of taost
Commanding appearance, great strength beauty
and action. SIX wears old this spring. lie was
gotten 10y Pirgittiap the fayorite son of Sir Ar.
cby, aud anlong his most distinguished racers :
his dam t~ho was sold this tail with her coli by
her ,ide to MIR Livingston OF New Yorls for
/ : l0O) is lay Mr. Herbert Hills bay Horss
Shenandoah one Of the first sous ofthe ceebra-
ted race horse Potomac, he was out Of Mr.. Hills
bay mare, by The Imported nurse Febriuee i;
| her dam by the imported horse Grey Doomed,
her grandeur by Wildair, her < grandaIn by
! COL. HAYNES Flinnap, her z. G. grandam by
! Old Valiant
! PERFORM ANCES. The Spring ne was
/ hrde years old no Won the Colts race AT New
/ MARKET AT three heats SIX subscribers, 500
each beating Betsy Archer. Jeanette and Rock
lnghnn very easily, aud repeating in iine time.
The same Spring be Won the loclv Club
Purse Two mile heats, at Spring Hill four start
ing.
The Fall after he was three years old. hc won
The Annual Post stake, at New Market Two
mile heats; five subscribers, 5000 each beat
ing easily Janet, Mr.. HarIisons kngnan aud
two others.
The same Fall ne won the Proprietor Purse,
at Nottoway, two mile heats beating Phillis,
Araius aud one other with great ease
The next week he run at Bellfcld. for the
Jockey Club, $500, three mile heats, and won
without difficulty beating Bertrand, Aratus
and two others
| The week after he won the Jockey Club, at
/ Spring Ill., two mile heats, beating Buster and
! Two others, hard IN hand
| The Spring he was four years old, he won
the Jockey Club Purse, 5000, at Bellield, three
mile heats beating the distinguished race mare
drill in fine time.
The next week he won the J0cky Club Purse
| at Laurclsville, four mile heats, $500, at one
heat, which he took easily that nothing could
! run against him the secopd heat.
The next week ne run at New Market four
mile heats aud was beat by tiohaunah, at three
heats. lie beat Ilrtlla IN the same race, they
| contending so closely as TO iniure each other We
~ much, aud thereby gave Gohaunah the race.
The all he was tour years ole he WINS trained,
| sustained an injury in his bind ancle, was turn
ed out, taken up again aud run, he was beaten
by Ariel. Monsieur Ionson, and Sally Magce ;
he was then turned out and wiaicred his ancle
is improved
The Spring he was five years old lie was a
| gam trained aud run Al Halifax. North drolma
lor the Projectors Purse two mile heats, which
he won ia grstt time beating Molato Mary,
&c. &c.
The next week he won the Jockey Club Purse.
$500, ut Bell6ed, three mile heats. three
heats; beating Sally Magee HIS ANGLE again
gave way and he has not started Tor race
since. So that il viii be seen from the above
statemeiS ofperiOrmhces, that Shakespeare has
beat almost every racer Of distinction that was
on The tuif with him. Among them Janet, the
iavorite OF New York Bertrand, the fayorite of
south Carolina Flnillla aud Ariel, the fave
ties of Virginia as well as Aratus, MMktime
Phillis, Rockingham, Betsy Archer, &c. DC. nc
WILLIAM TERRY.
Liberty, Bedford co, Feb. ls. otts3S