Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-20
wINPER ARABIAN.

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miles South of.Petcrsbtrg. IS miles Northeast fror
Brunswick Courthouse Lawrepcevillel and M mile
Northwest from Bell6fld. and let TO mares at -
the season. To be discharged by the payment of So
any time in the season. and dollar 10 the rrorm
IN each case. The setson To commence the 5th q
February. and terminate the 18th Jay OF July Goo,
pss'urage Tor mares frn,hed gratis; mares well fe,
and strictly attended 10 at reasonable price but M
responsibility for escabe or Sccidchts.
The subscriber contrstulates the breeders of fin,
horses, on the opportunity offered them of i'm
proving their stock, by valuable cross.-rhat th,
American and Engis race horse has greatly deterio
rated IN the last eghy years. is fact that be con
coded by all Intelligent and candid sportsmen; ano
that, that deterioration has been produced by the
practice Of breedngfa and it is called Cts, 10
from the same s,of,) it is presumed will also be
admitted. After hsmost 6i.gent inquiry and c.ref
investigation, behvc the most succ cssfuj rascrs in
Virginia uad that an occasional sort To h
original stock of fienal horses is AS necessary to
preserve an improtd breed, MS il was in the irs,
instance to obtain and FAR from the direct cross
not producing the Finest animals both for strength
speed and beauty, Ills capable of proof and the his
tory OF the EnSlisiirace horse will demonstrate il
that the best racers nd breeders England eyer b.5
were the sons and daughters, and a. farthest the
grand sons and graf daughters of the Arabisn: and
that they have DEPRECATED in proportion as they were
removed from tIse points. The fist evidence +
would offer in SUPPORT of the assertion ia H.. es,a
dates from the tim of the Introduction ,hs barley
Arabian, until the cath OF the Godolphim Arsbian
which included n criod of about fifty years They
were breeding extensively from oriental horses, in
their horses continued to improve in speed and bot
tom, while the wahts greatly increased; aged
horses then carrie 1913 pounds, and with that they
four miles, frm seven minutes twenty seconds, to
seven minutes fiS seconds; from that time say from
I770 to 1775 tie days of Eclipse, they discontinued
the breeding fro the Arabian and their weights have
been gradually decreasing; some tracks to 1l9
pounds; and onone, believe, are they higher than
1SS pounds yethere is not now in England or Anne
RIGA tha,can run the distance IN the same time
in which trmerly done with their heavy weights.
The next eydesce Isl the horses themselves. barley
Arabian got Filing Chders, who is said to have run
four miles in sx minutes and forty seconds. Flying
Chders got n,ny fine racers but none that equaled
himself. God,phn Arabian got the dam of Eclipse,
but Eclipse got his own equal, though he 20,
many iae rac-'s-viz: Regui9s, Volunteer, &c. Re.
gulus got mary champions of the turf but neither him
nor his progeny produced another Regulus. Nertum.
got Barcnet, but Daronet never got horse as
successful OF the turf AS himself sire Volunteer
got Spread Eagle, Sterling, Sc but Sterling and
Spread cage never got their own equal. much less
tie equal u Volunteer. Janus and Fearnought were
got by t;oiolphn Arabian: during the days OF those
horses, Virginia famed for fine saddle horses as
bal that de blood horse Of Virginia rarely produces
fine saddle horse: nor have believe, single tur
horse capable OF running four miles With los pounds
Uhe former weights IN good time Our best racers
are made by young horses carrying light weights ant
il is a fact and which is well worthy the consde
ration of raisers, that with the present light weights
many of first horses break down III training, anC
very few remain longer than two years on the turf
Their bone, snew, and muscle are not in proportion
to their size and weight--snd their legs often give
way in training exercise. Il is believed there is
now in the United States single highboo hors
that has ended from the same stock, viz tn
Godolphin Arabian. and, generally speaking, both b.
dam and sire Can strong, active, healthy and vgor
horse be reasonably expected by propagaiin
from such near connexions! Every farmer knows tn
aS .-as--.s --A 500, .atIIc, sneep, &c
but We seem not to have anticipated the consequence
to the noble and useful OF animals, by the viola
ton of the law of nature, which furbids ncestuou
coane xions; but il with IL its own corrective.
in Of
being the consequence OF system, it would seer
strange that continue to pursue it-rnany attempt
have been made to alter it,-many fine horses hay
be imported from England, but they have furnshe
no remedy for the evi-the English and America
! race horse being OF the stock. The difficult
and enormous expense of obtaining the true bloode
Arabian, has prevented the importation of many {
them into this country 1t is affirmed by writers an
travellers, that those of the sacred blood. :;nev ar
there caiied valued .T"' 80 to 5000 mounds ste
iing-thev -.- Considered a consec era, ed breed d.
signed for the OF the Prophet and his descc ndsn
and great rejudice exists selling them at al
Taplin in his Sporting Dictionary published in 1906
vol L, page AZ, remarks-"that they are mostly cor
signed as presents TO his Majesty of the Roy;
Family, and their pedigree of their blood is recorde
] with much care and tenacIty, the gcnealogy {
the most Ancient English Mobility" But, it cahnc
be necessary eulogize this matchless breed of ho
scs, to recommend them TO the American sportsman
he must know, that it by crossing on this stocl
that the sluggish and codblooded horse If England
was converted into the beautiful and high me- lie
courser. IL is only necessary to satisfy him that tn
WINTER ARABIAN is one of true stock SO man
attempts have been made to impose public credul
~ by paiming them spurious horses for the Arr
bian, that the evidence OF the true stock should b
satisfactory and conclusive. The Winter Arabian wa
captured during the late III 1914, the one yea
DID, by the priyaeer Grampus Of Baltimore, boar
the brig Doris, his Britannia Majestys Transport NJ
$50, her passage from Senegal in Africa TO Port,
mouth in England; and was intended a present fc
the then Prince Regent now King of England. 81
Miles Weekiy Register, UOl. ria. page I6.)
Winter Arabian sold part of the cargo of tn
captured brig, and was purchased by Elisha J. White
Esq. then a member of Congress from the State ,
New York; after the purchase, he, through highl
respectable mercantile house in New York, caused a
inquiry to be made OF Colonel BroomfeId and Mi
Douglas, the superintendent of Ills Maiesys stud
Hampton Court by whom he was Informed, ha, ful
blooded Arabian was shipped in the brig Doris, fror
Senegal, for his Majesty, und there doubt {
his being of the best Arabian stock.-Tis correspor
dence, with Mr. Winters certificate, that he is ia
same horse, with many other evidences. are in m
possession, and will be exhibited 20 any gentlema
who wishes to raise from him. All those who hav
seen him, admire his superiority of form, beauty an
flInty hardness of limbs; his fine, silky, flowing man
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