Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-02-15
WlN'PEB ARABIAN.

m'es SCUM OF petersburg, Is miles NortheaSt from
brunswick Courthouse. (IawrcpcevIRe,) and re miles
Northwest fom Bellhcld, and let 10 mares n, eos
the season, to be discharged by the payment of S2o
any time ~ the season. and dollar the groom
IN each case. The season TO commence the 18Th OF
February. and terminate the 18th day Of July Good
pasurage Tor mares furnished gratis; mares well fed
and strictly attended to at RESPONSIBLE price, but no
responsibility for escapes or accidents.
The subscriber congratuates the breeders of fine
horses on the opportunity now offered them of inn
proving their stock, by valuable cross.-That the
american ana English race horse has greatly detero-
rated IN the last eighty years. fact that must be con-
ceued by all intelligent and candil sportsmen; and
that, that deterioration has been produced by the
practice OF breeding and rs il is called ftbat ia
hou, the same stock,) Is presumed will also be
admitted. After the diligen, inquiry and careful
investigation believe the most ccessfuI rasers an
virginia are persuaded that sort to the
original stock Of oriental horses is as necessary to
preserve an improved breed, as il WAS in the first
instance to obtain 1t; and far from the direct cross
not producing the finest animals both for strength
speed aud beauty, 1t is capable OF proof and the his
tory OF the English race horse will demonstrate il
that the best racers aud breeders England ever had
were We sons and daughters, and at farthest, the
grand sons and granddaughter OF the Arabian: ami
That they have deprecated in proportion az they were
removed from these points. The first evidence !
would Offer IN support OF the assertion is the esa-
hished weights on the English course at different
dsies, from the time of the introduction of the DaIev
Arabian, until the death OF the Godolphin Arabian.
winch included period OF about City years. They
cu'ling Barbs and Turks. During that entire period
ther horses continued to improve in speed and bot
tom' wiie the weights were grestly increased; aged
nofscs then carried l68 pounds, and with that they
ran Tour miles, from seven minutes twenty seconds 10
seven minutes hty seconds; from tina, time say from
ifoto ia75 to the days o Eclipse, they discontinued
the breeding from the Arabian, and their weights have
been gradually decreasing; ON some tracks to 40
pounds; and on n"ns, believe they higher than
loo pounds yet there is not in England or Anne
RIGA racer that the distance in the SAM time
IN which was formerly done with their heavy weights
The next evidence is the horses the mselyes Darlev
Arabian got Flying Childers who is said TO have run
iour miles III SIX minutes aud forty seconds FIynp
Chiders got many fine racers; but none that eouaed
himself. Godophin Arabian got the dam of Ei;Ipse
out Eclipse never Got his own equal, though he got
many fine racers-vz: Regulus, Volunteer, &C. Re.
suius got many champions of the tur, bat neither him
nor his progeny produced another Rc,uI,us Vertum.
nus got RaJonet, but Baronet never got a horse as
successful on the turf as himself or size Volf Ger
got Spread Eagle, Sterling, &c; but Stcrln. and
Spread Eagle never got their own equal, much l. IS
the equal OF Volunteer Janus and Fearnought were
got by Godelphia Araban during the DAYS of those
horses Virginia famed for fine saddle horses az
we'll as distinguished racers now, it almost proven.
ha' tina, the blood horse of Virginia rarely produces
fine saddle horse nor have we, believe a single turf
horse capable of running four miles With 1913 nonn,ls
(the former weights) in good time best racers
are made by young horses carrying light weights; and
IT IS fact. aud which is well worthy the conside
ration ct rasers, that with the present light weights
many of our first horses break down in training and
very few remain longer than two years on the turf
Their bone, snew and muscle are not in PROMOTION
to their size and weght-and their legs often give
way IN training exercise. II is believed there is no,
now IN The United States single hgh-blooded horse
mat has not descended from the same stock viz the
CodoP''n Arabian, and, generally speaking both by
dam and sire Can strong active, healthy and vigur
Gus horse be reasonably expected by propagating
from such near connexions Every farmer knows the
elect OF crossing Ia and IA has cattle, sheen &c.
but We seem to have anticipated the conseoue nee
to the noble and useful of animals bv the viola
lion OF the law OF nature, which furbds inoestuoIs
connexions; but it carries with it ks own corrective
in the slow but certain destruction Of the Species such
oeinB the consequence ot our system, it would seem
strange that we continue to- pursue i-many ATTEMPTS
nave been made to alter it,-many fine horses have
been imported from England, but they have furnished
| no remedy for the evil--the English and American
race horse being OF the same stock. The difficulty
Bud enormous expense OF obtaining the true blnoded
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 ss they are
there caled,) valued from 500 TO 5000 pounds ser
hng-they are considered a consecrated breed de-
signed for the use OF the Prophet and his desce ndants
and great prejudice exists to selling them at ALL
1aplin IN his Sporting Dictionary published in 1905
vol l, page az, remarks-''that they are mostly CON
signed presents his Majesty or some of the ROYAL
Family and their ped1ee of their blood is recorded
with as much care and tenaety, as the geneaogy of
the most Ancient English Nobility" Hut, it caTnot
be necessary to euogze this maichess breed of hor.
SEES, to recommend them 70 the American sportsman;
he must know that 1t by crossing on this stock
that the sluggish and cod-blooded horse of England
was converted into the beautiful and hirh-me,,led
eourser 1t IS only necessary TO satisfy him that the
W nhNDlhN lS one OF true StOCk-SO many
attempts have been made to impose on public creduli
ty by Palming on them spurious horses for the Ara.
ban, that the evidence OF the true stock sh oud be
satisfactory and conclusive. The Winter Arabian was
captured during the late in 1914, then one year
old, by the prvsteer Granpus Of Baltimore, board
The brig Doris, his Britannia Maestys Transport No.
ooo on her passage from Senegal in Africa to Ports
mouth in England; and intended as a present for
the then Prince Regent, now King of England. (Ses
"Hes Weekly Register, uoL Uii page l6)
Winter Arabian was sold part of the cargo of the
captured brig, and purcS sed by Elisha j. Winter,
Esq. then a member Of Congress from the State OF
New York; after the purchase, he, through highly
respectable mercantile house in New York, caused an
inquiry to be made of Colonel BroomGeld and Mr..
Douglas, the superinendants Of Ills Mijesty's stud al
Hampton Court, by whom he informed, that full.
booded Arabian was shipped in the brig Doris from
Senegal Tor his Majesty, md there doubt of
hs being OF the best Arabian stock-fns correspon-
dence, with Mr.. Winters certificate, that he is the
same horse, with many other evidences. arc in my
possession, and will be exhibited To any gentleman
who wishes to raise from him. Al those who have