Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-13
WINTER ARABIAN.

brunswick Courthouse. (I4awrenceville,) aud 10 miles
Northwest from Bellfcld and let to mares at SOS
the season. be discharged by the payment Of $50
any time in the season. and dollar to the groom,
in each The season to commence the 18th OF
February and terminate the 18th day of July Good
pasturage for mares furnished gratis; mares well fed
and strictly attended TO at reasonable price, but no
responsibility for escapes or accidents
The subscriber congrst'ilates the breeders OF nne
hurscs, the opportunity now offered them OF I'M
proving their stock by valuable cross-fhat tho
American aud English horse has greatly dsser'o-
cc,ed by all intelligent snd candid sportsmcn and
that, that deterioration hes been produced by the
practice of breeding IN and IN rs 1t is called Chat is
fros the same stock,) 1t rs presumed viii also be
admitted. After the mos, dgeut inquiry and esreiul
investigation, believe the sSful rGsers 10
Virginia persuaded that occasional resort to the
original stock of oriental horses 10 necessaryt
preserve IN improved breed, it in the FIRST
instance ohtsjn il; and tar from the direct
producing the finest animals both for strength,
speed and beauty, it is capable of proof ind the his
tory of the English horse viii demonstrate it,
that the best and breeders England had,
were the SONS and daughters, and at tarthests the
grand. sons and grand daughters of the Arabsn and
That they have depr9cated in proportion they
removed from these points. The u"@t evidence
would otter in support of the assertion IS, tie esa-
biished wsights the English course at dlilereHt
dates from the time of the introduction fthr barley
Arabian, until the death of the GodClphin -Arabisn;
which included period at about fifty years. They
breeding extensively from oriental horses, in
Guiding Barbs and Turks During that entire period
their horses continued to improve in speed and bot
tom, while the weights greatly increased; aged
horses then carried i6S pounds, and with that they
four miles, from minutes twenty seconds,
minutes Fifty seconds; from that time, say from
1870 l775 the days of Eclipse they discontinued
the breeding from the Arabian and their weights have
been gradually decreasingi some tracks to ll9
pounds and on none, believe, are they higher than
lSS pounds yet there is not in England or Anne
RIGA racer that the distance in the time
i'm which II formerly with their heavy weights
The next evidence is the horses themselves. barley
Arabian got Flying Chlders, who is said to have
four miles in six minutes and forty seconds Flying
Chders got many fine racers; out none that equaed
h!Tss I. Godolph;n Arabian got tae dam ct Eclipse,
bat Eclipse never got his own equal, though he got
many fine racers--v,z: Reguus, Volunteer &c. lie
giIuS got many champions Of the Turf but neither him
nor his progeny produ,. : snothcr Regulus Nsrtun-
r,s got Batone but Raronet never got horse as
successful the turf himself size Volunteer
got Sprea3 Eagle, Sterling, &c. but Sterling and
Spread Eagle never got their own equal. much less
the equal Of Volunteer. Janus and Fearnought ere
got by Godolphn Arabian; during the days of those
horses, Virginia famed for fine saddle horses as
wen distinguished racers; now, ii is alRoSt proven.
bal tina; the blood horse Of Virginia rarely produces
fine saddle horse: have believe, single turf
horse capable of running four miles with 1913 pounds
Che former weights i'll good time Our best racers
made by young horses carrying light weights and
it is fact, and which we'll worthy the cDnside
ration of raser that with the present light weights
many of first horses break down in training and
very few remain longer than two years The turf
Their bone, snew, aud muscle not IN prupOrtigr
to their size and weight-and their logs often give
way IN training exercise. II is believed there = 40
noIy in the United States single high hloodrd hors,
that has not descended from the stock viz: the
Godolphin Arabian, and, generally speaking both by
dam and sire. Can strong, active healthy and vigor
Gus horse be reasonably expected by propagatinp
from such near connexions Every farmer knows the
effect OF crossing and "a has cattle sheep, &c
but we seem not to have anticipated the consequence
to the most noble and useful of aninal by the viola
don Of tho law Of nature, which frbids incssfuotu
cDnneXions bat IL caEries ytb it It's oyn corrective
10 the slow but certain destruction of the Species oh
being the consequence OF system, Uould seem
strange that continue pursue it-nany stteuDts
nave been madt To alter it,-uany fne horses have
bcen imported from England but they have furnished
no remedy for the evi-the English and American
race hCrSo being OF the same stock. Tho difficulty
and expense Of obtaining the true bloodel
Arabian, has prevented tho Importation Of many of
them into this country IL is affirmed by writer's and
travellers that those of the sacred blood las they are
therc ealed valued from 500 5000 pounds ster
hDg-ihey considered a conseerated breed de-
signed for The OF the Prophet and his
and great prejudice exists to selling them at all
Iapln, in his Sporting Dictionary published IN 1905
vol. l. page ar, remarks-"that they are mostly con
signed presents his Ma jesty of the Roya
Family and their pedigree of their blood is recorded
with much care and tenhcity, the genealogy OF
the most Ancient English Nobility" But, it conno,
be necessary TO eu!osIze this matches breed Of hor-
ses, to recommend them to the American sportsman;
lie must know, that it gas By crossing this stock
that the sluggish and coldblooded horse Of Enkand
vas converted into the beautiful and high-mettIed
cDurser. 1t is only necessary to sstisfy him that the
WINTER ARABIAN is one of true stock-so many
attempts have been male to impose on public cFedu.
~ by Paming on them spurious horses for the Ara
ban, that the evidence of the true stock should be
satisfactory aud conclusive. The Winter Arabian gas
captured during the late war in 1914 then one wear
old, by the privateer Grampus of Baltimore, on board
the brig Doris his Britannia Najesty's Transport No
go on her passage from Senegal in Africa Ports.
mouth IN England: and vas intended a present for
the then Prince Regent now King of England. (Sss
JNtss Weekly Register, roll GA page I6)
Winter Arabian sold part of The cargo of the
captured brig, and was purchased by Elsbu j. Winter
Esq. then member Of Congress from the State OF
Rev York; after the purchase, he, through a highly
respectable mercantile house in New YORK. caused an
inquiry 10 be made OF Colonel BroomfieId and Nr
Douglas, the suPernteBdants OF Hs Majestys stud al
Hampton Court, by whom he informed that full.
5iooded Arabian was shipped in the brig Doris from
Senegal for his Majesty, und there no doubt of
I"s beng Of the best Arabian stock-Ths correspon.
dcncc, With Mr. Winters certificate that be is tile
same horse, with many other evidences. are in my
PosSessioni and viii be exhibited TO any gentleman
who wishes TO raise from him An those who have
seen hlu, admire s superiority of FORM beauty and
finty hardness of limbs his fine, silky flowing name
and tails elastic and sPrghty movements great share
81 bone and muscles indeed tic only objection to him.
or which can be tax TO him. his szc-bejnr about