Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-04
WINTER ARABIAN.


Northwest from BellGeld, aud let to mares Mt Ss5 |
the season. to be discharged by the payment Of S2o
any time n the and dollar To the groom
in each The season TO commence the 18th OF
February, and terminate the 18th day of July. Good
pssturage for furnished gratis mares well fed
and strictly attended to at reasonable price, but no
responsibility Tor escapes or accidents. III. 1
The subscriber congratulates the breeders of fine l
horses, the opportunity now offered them OF im-
proving their stock BY valuable cross ma. .he
American and English horse has greatly deterio
rated last eighty years isl fact that must be con-
ceded by all intelligent and candid sPortsmen; and
that, that deterioration has been Produced by the
nrae,;ee of breeding in as it is called, Ctat is
from the same stosI,) It is presumed will also be |
admitted. After the most digent inquiry and careful
investigation, believe the most successful raisers in
Virginia persuaded that occasional resort to the
original stock of oriental horses is necessary to
preserve improved breed. as it was in the first
instance to obtain it, and SO Tar from the direct cross
not producing the finest animals both FOR strength,
speed and beauty is capable OF proof, and the his
tory of the English race horse will demonstrate 1t,
that the best and breeders England ever had,
were the and daughters, and at farthest, the
grand.sons and grand daughters Of the Arsbau and
That they have deprecated in proportion as they were
removed from these points The first evidence
would offer in support of the assertion the esa-
blshed weights the English course at different
dates from the time of the introduction 1.-THE barley
Arabian, until the death of the Godolphin Arsbian
which included period of 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 were greatly increased; aged
horses then carried 165 pounds, and with that they
four miles, from seven minutes twenty seconds, to
seven minutes fifty seconds, from that time, say from
1870 I775 the days of Eclipse, they discontinued
the breeding from the Araban and their weights have
been gradually decreasing; some tracks TO 1l9
pounds; and none, believe, are they higher than
1S3 pounds yet there is not in England or Ame-
RIGA that the distance in the time
IN which formerly done with their heavy weights.
The next evidence is the horses themselves. barley
Arabian got Flying Childers, who is said to have
four miles in six minutes and forty seconds. Flying
finer bi1tn thate lied
himself Godolphin Arabian got the dam of Eclipse,
but Eclipse never got his own equal, though he got
many hne racers-yiz: Regulus, Volunteer, sc. Re-
gulus got many champions Of the turf but neither him
nor his progeny produced another Rcgulus. Yertum-
ms got Barone,, but Baronet got a horse as
successful the turf himself or sire Volunteer
got Spread Eagle, Sterling, &C.; but Sterling and
Spread Eagle never got their equal, much less
the equal of Volunteer. Janus and FearnouGh, were
got by Godolphin Arabian; during the days OF those
horses, Virginia famed for fine saddle horses as
well as distinguished racers now, it is almost proven
hiah that the blood horse of Virginia rarely produces
Tine saddle borse nor have believe, single turf
horse capable of running four miles with 16S pounds
the former weights) in good me.-Our best racers
are made by young horses carrying light weights; and
IS tact and which is well worthy the conside
ration of rasers, that with the present light weights
many of our first horses break down in training and
very tev remain longer than two years on the turf
helr BORE sinew, aud muscle not in proportion
10 tneir size and weight-and their legs often give
way IN training exercise. is believed there is not
now IN the United States single hgh-blooded horse
that has not descended from the stock viz: the
3OdoiPhn Arsban, and, generally speaking, both by
dam and sire. Can strong, active, healthy vEoT
from such near connexionsi Every farmer knows the
effect OF crossing and ia has on cattle sheen Re
but we seem not to have anticipated the consequence
to tile noble and useful Of animals by the viola
tion of the law of nature, which fOrbis incestt,ous
connexions; but il carries with it its corrective
in the slow but certain destruction the Species such
being the consequence OF systcu1, it would seem
strange that continue TO pursue t-many attempts
have been made to alter t,-many fine horses have
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no remedy for the evl--the English and American
race horse being of the stock. Tbs difficulty
and enormous expense of obtaining the true blooded
Arabian, has prevented the Importation of many of
them into this country. II is affirmed by writer's and
travellers, that those of the sacred blood las they are
there caiied valuedfrom 500 5000 pounds ster
ii1g-they are considered a consecrated breed, de-
signed for the use of the Prophet and his descendants
and great prejudice exists to selling them at all
Tapn, in his Sporting Dictionary published in 1906
vol. l. page AZ, remarks-"hat they are mostly con.
signed presents his Majesty some of the ROYAL
Family, and their pedigree of their blood is recorded
%.h as much care and tenacI'y as the genealogy of
be necessary TO euogze this matchess breed of hor
ses, to recommend them to the American sportsman:
ne must know, that it was by crossing on this stock
that the sluggish and cold-booded horse of England
was converted into the beautiful and high-mettIed
eogrser 1t IS only necessary to satisfy him that the
WINTER ARABIAN is one of true stock-so many
attempts have been made to impose on publc creduI;
Yby paiming on them spurious horses for the Ara
ban, that the evidence Of the true stock should be
D@SS'@NeOAJ anu COHCluhlhes Inc WINTER Arabian
captured during the late war in 1914 then one wear
Old by the privateer Grampus Of baltimore on board
me brig DORIS, his Britannia Majesty's Transport No
oJO, her passage from Senegal in Africa 70 Porte
NOUN IN England' and was intended as a present for
Ne. men Prince Regent now King of England (Se
'Nues Woetiy Register rot. Uii page i6) q
Winter Arabian was sold as part of the cargo of the
captured brig and was purchased by Elisha j. Winter
Esq' then member of Congress from the State of
New York. after the purchase he through h;phIv |
respectable mercantile house in New York. caused an
inquiry to be made of Colonel Broomfield and Mr.
douglas, the superntendans Of His Maiestys stud Al
hampton Court, by whom lac informed that a full
oIooded Arabian was shipped in the brig Doris from
senegal tor bis Majesty, und there was no doubt Of
ms oeinB OF the best Arabian stock-This corresnon
oence; with Mr. Winters certificate, that lie is the
sane morse with many other evidences are in INV |
P9ssession' add will be exhibited to any ,entlerna
VINO wishes to raise from him All those who baSn
MN, admire his superiority of form beauty and
ana OF limbs; his fine, silky, flowing m4ne
~ ~ ta eiasue and sprighuy movements. r,rest sb,
=. DIne ana muscles indeed the only objection to him;
WiIch can be takento him, is his size-beiror 49,,