Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-31
WINTER ARABIAN.

Brunswick Courthouse n awrc,cCv lc and I8 miles
Northwest from Bel!icld, and ct To mares at sos
The season. 20 nc discharged by the payment of $50
any utae IN the season, and dollar to the groom
IN each case. The season To commence the 18th ct
February. and terminate the 18th day OF July. Guod
pssturage Tor mares furnished erats well fed
and strictly attended TO reasonable price. but np
responsibility for escapes accidents.
The subscriber congr.tulstss the breeders OF fine
horses, on the opportunity nov offered them of I'M
proving their stock, by a valuable cruss.-That the
American aud English race HORSE has greatly detcro-
rated al The last eighty years, i fact that must be
coded by all intelligent and candid sportsmcn; and
that, that deterioration has been produced by the
practice of breeding and is called. (that is
from the Same stock,) it IS presumed will also be
admitted After the most ditgent inquiry aud careful
investigation, believe tho Cossful raisers in
Virginia persuaded that an caSnna resort u the
Original stock Of oriental horses Is necessary 60
preserve an improved breed, IL in the first
instance to obtain IT,; and from the direct cross
Hot producing the finest animals both for strength
speed and beauty, is capable OF proof and the his
tory of the English race horse viii dt demonstrate il,
that the best and breeders England ever had.
were the and dan .htcrs, and at iarthest the
grand sons and grauddsuEhtcrs Of tho Arabian; and
that they have Deprecated n proportion IS they were
removed from these prints. 1Gr "a ; evidence I
would offer IN support of the assertion - he esa-
bGShsd weights On the Enghsh at different
dates, froiI the time Ct the introduction "a harley
Arabian, until the death OF the Godolphn ARABIAN.
which included period of about fifty years They
were breeding eStensveiy from oriental horses i'm.
Guiding Bsrhs and Turks. During that entire period
their horses continued II improve in speed and bot
tom, while the weights were g-esty increased. aged
horses then carried los pounds, and with that they
ran tour miles, from seven minutes twenty seconds,
seven minutes my seconds, from that uUc say
lI1O To l175 TO the days 81 Eclipse. they discontinued
me breeding from the Arabian, and their weights have
been gradually decreasing; on some tr,rls Tn 10
pounds; and on none believe, are they Lie her than
l3S pounds yet there Is not IN England or Anne.
ca racer That can run the distance IN the sane time
~ which Was formerly done with their heavy weights
The next evidence Is, the horses themselves. barley
Arabian got Flying ChIdcrs, who IS said 10 have rr,
Tour miles IN SIX minutes aud forty seconds FLYING
Ch!ters cot many fine racers but none that euuaed
himself 6odoirmn Arabian got the dam of Eclipse,
o"' Eclipse never got his own equal, though he got
many tae rLcsis-yIz: RcguVs, Volunteer, SC Re-
Suius got many champions OF the tu, bat neither him
nor IiS progeny produced onuthcr Rcguus Nerturn.
nus got Baronet, but BArpnet never got horse as
successful on the turf himself or sire Volunteer
got spread Eagle, Sterling, &c; but Sterling and
Spread Eagle never got their own equal much less
'"e equal OF Volunteer. Janus and Fearnought we're
got b Icdolphn Arabian; during the DAYS OF those
horses, rSniS was famed for fine saddle horses as
Wen as distinguished racers; now, ii almost proven.
oIa mat the blood horse Of Virginia rarely produces
me saddle horse: nor have believe single turf
morse capable OF running four miles With I6S pounds
t FORMER weights m good time Our best racers
aye made by Young horses carrying light weights: and
Il - fact and one which IS well worthy the consle
rsion OF s'sers that with the present light yeipbta
many OF our first horses break down in training and
very tex remain longer than two years on the turf
iheiF bone, s'nsw, aud muscle not in proportion
TO their SIZE and weight--and their legs often give
way IN training exercise. II is believed there is no,
now IN The United States \ single hiCh-hlooded bor,e
taat has not descended from the stock viz: the
G"dolPhn arabian, and. generally speaking both by
"am ann sire Can strong, active, healthy vgor-
Gus horSe be reasonably expected by propagating
tonl SUCH near come Xions? Every farmer knows the
effect OF crossing and N has on cattle sheen &C
but We seem not TO have anticipated the CONSEQUENCE
to the most noble and useful al animals bv the yoIo
ton oil the law of nature, which orbids incestuous
Xions but ii with It its own correctivc
!" e 80" nut certain destruction Of the specicsi such
oelh6 me consequence OF our system, it would seem
strange that we continue to pursue it-Inany attempts
have been made 20 alter t,-many fine horses have
been imported from England, but they have furnished
no remedy for the eyii--the English and American
race horse beng OF the stock. Tie difficulty
and enormous expense of obtaining the true blooIed
Arabian, has prevented the importation of many Of
them INTO ths country Il is affirmed by writer's and
travellers tnai those OF the sacred blood as they ar
there caIled,) valued from 500 10 5000 mounds
hn6-'hey are considered a consecratcd breed de-
sB"ed FOR the use of the Prophet and his ,esccndap
and great prejudice exists 10 selling them AZ all
lapiin, in lis Sporting Dictionary published in I8g7
vol l, page ", romarks-"that tbev are mostly coo
signed as presents To his Majesty or some OF the ROYAL
Family, and their pedigree of their blood &c recorJaJ
the most Ancient English Nobility" But II csrn.,
be necessary to eu'osze this matches breed of hor
ses' to recommend them TO The American sportsman.
he must Know, that II was by crossing on tins stock
that the sluggish and coidblUoded horse Of England
was converted into the beautiful sn. ht-h-metiled
coufser. II IS only necessary 10 satisfy him that ,hs
" ~ i-is h''Nb!A An ~ QUO OF true stOck-sO MANI
attempts have been made 20 impose on public crctul
" by Paming on them spurious horses for the Ara
man that TIE evidence Ut the true stock should bc
satisfactory ind conclusive. The Winter Arabian ,y,c
captured during the late war in 1914 the one vcsr
oId, by the priyateer Grampus OF Baltimore on boarJ
We brig DOrs his Britannia MaIesty's TransDort No
O'O on her passage from Senegal in Africa TO Por,s
mouth IN England: and was intended as a present for
Ne lhen Prince Regent, now King Of England lSos
|'.g. "eeFiy heS"tey, roi mn Yngs lG)
"nlfr hrHOlln was sold as part Of the cargo Of the
captured brig and vas purchased by Elisha j. Winte-
i.s4. Then member Of Congress from the State Of
New YORK; alter the purchase, he, through hirbiv
respectable mercantile house M New York caused an
inquiry to be made Of Colonel Broon,feld and Mr.
douglas the superintendent Of Ills Maiesy's stud AZ
lamp on Court, ~ whom he was informed that a foil.
D'ooded Arabian was shipped in the brig Doris from,
senegal, Tor is hajcsty uul there was no doubt of
uis Oc"R oil IHe best Arabian stoc.-Ths corrcspn1.
ucnce, Wi'h Mr. winters certificate, that he is the
same horse, wIth many other evidences are I'm nv
possession, and wN be exhibited to any rcntI.o,au.
who wishes 10 raise from him Al those who have
seen hin admire his superiority of FORM beauty and
Ihny hardness Of limbs, his fine, silky, Ho~iuE name
ana 'a elastic and sprghty movements; great share
81 bone and muscles indeed the only objection Co INN,