Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-17
WINTER ARABIAN.

Brunswick Courthouse I.awrepcevic, and 10 miles
Northwest from BeGeld, and let TO mares at Se5
Tue season. TO be discharged by the payment OF $50
any time in the season. aud one dollar to the groom
IN each case. The season to commence the 18th OF
February, and terminate the 18th day of July. Good
pasturage for mares furnished gratis mares well fed
ana strictly attended TO at RESPONSIBLE price, but
responsibility Tor escapes or accidents. ..tt 80
The subscriber congrstulatcs the breeders Of fine
horses, ON the opportunity now offered them of inn
proving their stock, by n valuable cross-That tho
American and English horse has greatly deterio-
rated in the last eighty Is fact that must be
coded by all intelligent and candid sportsmen; and
that, that deterioration has been produced by the
practice ut breeding IA ad ~, rs is called, Chat is
from the same stock,) it is presumed will also be
admitted After the mos, dilgen, inquiry and careful
investigation, believe the most successful raisers in
Virginia persuaded that occasional the
original stock Of oriental horses is as necessary to
preserve an improved breed, it in the first
instance to obtain il; and far from the direct cross
not producing the finest animals both for streny TIL
speed and beauty, it is capable of proof and the his
tory OF the English horse will demonstrate it,
that the best racers and breeders England ever had
were the and daughte RS, and at farthest, the
grand. and grand daughters of the Arabian and
that they have deprecated in proportion as they
removed from these points. The tirst evidence
would offer in support Of the assertion is the csa-
bhshed weights the English course at different
dates, from the time OF the introduction fthe barley
Arabian, until the death of the Godolphn Arabian.
which included period of about fifty years. They
were breeding extensively from oriental horses, in.
GLIDING Barbs and Turks. During that entire period
tom, while the weights greatly increased; aged
horses then carried los pounds, and with tina, they
four miles, from minutes twenty seconds To
seven minutes fifty seconds; from that time say from
l77O to IT'S To the days ct Eclipse they discontinued
the breeding from the Arabian aud their weights have
been gradually decreasing; some tracks to 1l9
pounds; and on none, believe, they higher than
l3S pounds yet there is not in England or Anne
RIGA racer that the distance in the same time
in which IT was formerly done with their heavy weights
The next evidence is, the horses themselves. barley
Ar,f ll,,n
four miles in six minutes and forty seconds. Flying
Chders got many fine racers; but none that equalled
himself Godophiu Arabian got the dam of Eclipse
but Eclipse never got his own equal, though he got
many flne raoers-viz: Reguas. Volunteer &c lie.
guius got many champions of the turf but neither him
nor his progeny produced another Regulus. Ver,um.
nus got Barone', but Baronet never got horse
successful on the turf as himself size Volunteer
got Spread Eagle, Sterling, &c.. but Sterling and
Spread Eagle never got their own equal, much less
The equal OF Volunteer. Janus and Fearnought were
got By Godophin Arabian; during the days of those
horses, Virgina famed for fine saddle horses as
well ms distinguished racers; now, it is almost proven
bia that the blood horse of Virginia rarely produces
hne saddle horse have believe, a single turf
horse capable o! running four miles with 1853 pounds
Che former weights i'll good time best racers
are made by young horses carrying light weights; and
1t IS fact, and one which is well worthy the conside
ration ot raisers, that with the present light weights
many OF our first horses break down in training, and
very fey remain longer than two years on the turf
Their bone, sinew, and muscle not in proportion
way IN training exercise II is believed there is not
now in the United States single high-blooded horse
that has not descended from the same stock viz the
Godoiphin Arabian, and generally speaking, both by
dam and SIRE Can strong, active, healthy and vigor-
Gus horse be reasonably expected by propagating
from such near exionsf Every farmer knows the
effect OF crossing and IN has on cattle sheen SC
but seem not to have anticipated the conseouerc.
to the noble and useful of animals by the viola
ton of the law of nature, which forbds inces,uous
xions, but it carries with il its own corrective
uoffh e
being tho consequence of our system, it would seem
strange that we continue to pursue -nany a,.empts
have been made to alter i',-many fine horses have
been imported from England, but they have furnished
no remedy tor the ev-tiie English and American
race horse being OF the stock. The difficulty
and enormous expense of obtaining the true blooded
Arabian, has prevented the importation of MANY of
them into this country. 1t is affirmed by writers and
travellers that those Of the sacred blood las they are
there caed are valued from 500 5000 pounds stcr-
lng-they considered a consecraiei breed de-
signed for the of the Prophet and his descendants.
and great prejudice exists selling them At all
raplin in his Sporting Dictionary published in 1905.
vol. /, page AZ, remarks-'tbat they mostly con-
signed as presents 10 his Majesty some of the ROYAL
Family, and their pedigree of their blood is recorded
with much and tenaci,y, as the genealopv of
the most Ancient English Nobility" But, it cannot
be necessary to eulogze this matchess breed of hor
scs, to recommend them to the American Sportsman,
he must know, that it by crossing on this stock.
that the sluggish and coldblooded horse If England
converted into the beautiful anil b;ob maui
conrser II is only necessary satisfy him that the
WINTER ARABIAN is one of true stock-so many
auep's nave been made to impose public cretluii-
~ by paimng OH them spurious horses for the Ara.
ban that the evidence of the true stock should be
satisfactory and conclusive. The Winter Arabian was
captured during the late in 1914, then one wear
Old by the privsteer Grampus OF Baltimore on board
the brig Doris, his Britannia Maestys Transport No
ojo on her passage from Senegal in Africa to Ports
mouth in England: and was intended as present for
the then Prince Regent, now King of England. (sce
Htei Weekty Register mol uit. page iG.)
Winter Arabian sold n of or ,he
captured brig, and was purchased by Elisha j. Winter,
Esq. then member of Congress from the State of
New Yorki after the purchase he, through n highly
respectable mercantile house in New York caused an
inquiry to be made oil Colonel Broomfield and Mr.
Dougas, the superin,endants of Ills Maiesty's st, at
Hampton Court, by whom he informed, that a full
biooded Arabian was shipped in the brig Doris from
Senegal, for his Majesty, und there no doubt of
ms being OF the best Arabian stockThis correspon-
dence, with Mr.. Winters certificate, that he ia the
same horse, with many other evidences. are in nv
possession, and will be exhibited to any gentleman
who wishes to raise from him. All those who have
seen bin, admire his superiority Of form, beauty and
hnty hardness of limbs; his finc silky, flowing name
and ail elastic and sprighty movements great share
oi bone and muscles indeed the only objection TO him