Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-04-19
WINTER ARABIAN.

WIS beautiful and true Arabian Stallion will stand
tiny stable, IN the county of Brunswick SO
mhes Sonth al petersburg, 10 miles Northeqst from
Brunswick Courthouso. (Iawrcpccyillc and IL miles
Northwest from BcGcld, and lot To mares At q,
the season, To be discharged by the payment of S2
any nme IN The season. and dollar to the groom,
w each case. The season to commence the 18th of
February, and terminate the 18th tlay of July Gool
pasturage for mares furnished gratis mares well fed
and strictly attended to at reasonable price but no
. responsibility Tor escapes accidents
The subscriber congratulates the breeders OF fine
horses on The opportunity offered them of i'm.
proving thelr stock, by valuable cross.-That the
American and English horse has greatly de,crio-
rated IN the last eighty years, is fact that be
coded by all intelligent and candid spor,smen. and
that that deterioration has been produced by the
practice ot breeding and IN IL is called Cthat S
from the same stock,) il is presumed will also he
admitted. After the most dilgcnt INQUIRY and careful
investigation, believe the successful raisers in
Virginia are persuaded that occasional resort to the
original stock OF oriental horses is as necessary TO
preserve an improved breed, rs il was in the first
instance 10 Obtain IT. and so far from the direct cross
not producing the finest animals both for streng IT,
speed and beauty, 1t is capable of proof and the his
tory OF the English race horse will ,emons,ra,e IT,
mat the best racers and breeders England ever had
were 'he sons and daughters, and at farhest, the
Sranusons and Grand-daughters of the Arabian: and
that they have deprecated in proportion as they were
removed from these points, The frs, evidence I
would offer IN support of the assertion is the esta-
ohshed weights on the English course at different
dates, from the time of the introduction te n,rIey
Arabian, until the death of the Godolphu Arabian
which included period of about fifty yeats They
were breeding extensively from oriental horses in
GLIDING Barbs and Turks. During that entire perioJ
their horses continued improve in speed and hot
tom, while the weights were greatly increased, aged
horses then carried loS pounds, and with that they
ran -four miles, from seven minutes twenty seconds n,
seven minutes fifty seconds; from ha, time saw from
l|'ot lII5 TO the days of Eclipse, they discontinued
the breeding from the Arabian, and their weights have
oeeh gradually decreasingi some tracks 10 10
pounds and on nonc believe, are they hiqber than
lS' Po"huSi yet there IS not now in England or Anne
ea racer That can run the distance in the same time
IN which was Formerly done with their heavy weights
The next evidence is, the horses themselves DarIev
Arabian got Flying Chders, who is said TO have run
tour miles IN slX minutes and forty seconds Flying
tmIders got many hne racers but that eQualled
himself Godoiphrn Arabian got The dam of Eclipse
but Eclipse never got his equal, though he 90,
many line racers--YIz: Regulus, Volunteer, &c. Re
gulus got many champions OF the turf but neither him
nor ms progeny produced another Rcgulus. Nertum-
nos got Baronet, but BIro: - never got horse as
sccesSiui on the turf as himself sire. Volunteer
got Spread Eagle, Sterling, &c; but Sterling and
Spread Eagle never got their equal much less
the equal OF Volunteer. Janus and Fearnoucht were
got By Godo!phin Arabian; during the days OF those
horses, virginia was famed for fine saddle horses, as
well as distinguished racers; new, ii is almost proven
bIa that the blood horse of Virginia rarely produces
fine saddle horse: have we, believe, single turf
morse capable OF running four miles with 1913 pounds
(the former weights in good time Our best racers
are made by young horses carrying light weights. and
1t IS fact and which is well worthy the conside
ration OF ra'sers that with the present light weights
many Vi ouT nOTSeS break down training, and
very fey remain longer than two years on the turf
Their bone, snew, and muscle not in proportion
to their size and weight-and their legs often Give
way in training exercise. II is believed there Is NOT
now IN the United States single hgh-blooded horse
that has not descended from the same stock Wis the
GodoiPhn Arabian, and, generally speaking, both by
dam ana SIRE Can strong active, healthy and vgor-
Gus morse be reasonably expected by prupagatinr
IRON such near connexions! Every farmer knows the
effect ct crossing IN and IN has cattle, sheep &C.,
nut we seem not to have anticipated the consequence
10 thp mr. npbla nniI FIJI .
ton Of the law OF nature, which fUrbds inceS,uous
connexions but II carries with il its own corrective
IN the slow but certain destruction Of the Species such
beng the consequence OF our system, it would seem
strange that we continue to pursue t-manv ai,ennte
have been made to alter it,-many fine horses have
been imported from England but they have furnished
no remedy Tor The eyii-the English and American
race horse being cf the same 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 writer's and
travellers that those of the sacred blood las they are
there calledD valued from 500 to 5000 pounds scr
hng-they are considered cCnsecrated breed, de.
signed for the use of the Prophet and his descendants
and great prejudice exists to selling them AT all
Taplin, in his Sporting Dictionary published in 1904
vol ], page ~, remarks-"that they are mostly con-
signed as presents TO his Majesty some of the ROYAL
FAMILY and their pedigree of their blood is recorded
with as much care and enacity, as the geneaIopy of
the most Ancient English Nobility" But it cannot
be necessary to eulogze this machless breed of hor
ses, to recommend them to the American sportsman;
X,
that the sluggish and coIdbooded horse Of England
was converted into the beautiful and high.mettied
courser II IS only necessary 10 satisfy him that the
WINTER ARABIAN is one of true stock-so rnorv
attempts have been made TO impose on public credul
ty by palming on them spul ous horses for the Ara
bian, 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 privateer Grampus of Baltimore on board
Tue brig Doris his Britannia Majesty's Transport No
o1O, on her passage from Senegal in Africa 10 Ports
IN Enr md. nFN,lsf HI
the then Prince Regent, King of England CSce
Mics Weekly Register, UOi Uii. rage lG)
Winter Arabian was sold 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 n highly
respectable mercantile house in New York, caused an
inquiry TO be made Of Colonel Broomfell and Mr.
Douglas, the supern,cndants of Ills Maiesys stud at
Hampton Court, by whom he was informed that a full.
blooded Arabian shipped in tho brig Doris, from
senegal, Tor his Majesty, und there no doubt of
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