Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-08
WINTER ARABIAN.

THIS beautiful and true Arabian Stallion will stand
- at my stable, IN the county of Brunswick, 80
miles South of Petersburg, is miles Northeast from
Brunswick Courthouse, (Lswrepceville and IS miles
Northwest from Belheld, and let TO mares at Sos
the season, to be discharged by the payment of 2O
any time IN the season. and 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 furnished gratis; well fed
and strictly attended to at reasonable price, but
responsibility for escapes accidents.
The subscriber congratulates the breeders of fine
horses, on the opportunity now offered them of i'm
proving their stock, by a valuable cross.-That the
American and English horse has greatly deterio
rated in the last eighty years. fact that must be
coded by all intelligent and candid sportsmen; and
that, that deterioration has been produced by the
practice OF breeding tn and IT is called, Chat is
from the same stock,) it is presumed will also be
admitted After the most dilgent inquiry and careful
investigation, believe the most successful rasers in
Virginia persuaded that occasional to the
original stock of oriental horses is necessary
preserve improved breed, as it in the first
instance to obtain it, and so tar from the direct
not producing the finest animals both for streng th
speed and beauty il is capable of proof and the his
tory of the English horse will demonstrate il,
that the best racers and breeders England had
were the sons and daughters, and at farthest, the
grand sons and granddaughter of the Arabian; and
that they have deprecated in proportion they were
removed from these points. The G'St evidence I
would offer in support of the assertion is, the esta
bGshed weights the English different
dates from the time of the introduction ithe harley
Arabian, until the death of the Godolphin Arabian;
which included period of about fifty years. They
breeding extensively from oriental horses,
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 16S pounds, and with that they
ran four miles, from minutes twenty seconds to
seven minutes fifty seconds; from that time say from
l77O to 1775 TO the days of Eclipse they discontinued
the breeding from the Arabian aud their weights have
been gradually decreasing; tracks to IlY
pounds and on none, believe they higher than
ISIS pounds yet there is not now in England Ame-
RIGA that the distance the sane time
in which it formerly done with their heavy weights
The next evidence is, the horses themselves. barley
Arabian got Flying Ch,ders WIN is said TO have run
four miles in six minutes and forty seconds. FLYING
ChderS got many fine racers; but that equaed
himself GodolPhin Arabian got the dam of Eclipse,
but Eclipse never got his own equal, though he got
many hne racers-viz: Regulus, Volunteer, &c. Re
gulus got many champions of the turf but neither him
nor his progeny produced smother Regulus. Nertum.
nus got Baronet, but Baronet never got horse as
successful on the turf as himself sire. Volunteer
got Spread Eagle, Sterling, &c; but Sterling and
Spread Eagle never got their own equal. much ISIS
the equal of Volunteer. Janus and Fearnoueht were
got by todolphin Arabian; during the days of these
horses Virginia famed for fine saddle horses, as
well as distinguished racers; now, il is almost proven.
bal that the blood horse Virginia rarely produces
hne saddle horse nor have We believe, single turf
horse capable of running four miles with 1913 pounds
(the former weights, i'll good time. Our best racers
are made by young horses carrying light weights; and
1t is fact, and which well worthy eonsite
ration OF that with the present light
many OF first horses break down in training, and
very few remain longer than years on the turf.
Their bone, sinew, and muscle not in proportion
TO their size and weight-and their legs often give
way IN training exercise 1t is believed there is not
now IN the United States single high-blooded horse
that has not descended from the stock. viz the
Godolphn Arabian, and, generally speaking, both by
dam and sire Can a strong active, healthy and vgor-
Gus horse be reasonably expected by propagating
from such near connexions! Every farmer knows the
effect of crossing and in has on cattle sheen &c
but We not to have anticipated the consenuen,s
to the most noble and useful OF animals by the viola
finn fba l.rry rutatr =
come xons; but it carries with its own corrective
in the Glow but certain destruction of the speces
beng the consequence OF system, it would seem
strange that we continue to pursue itany attenpts
have been made alter it many fine horses have
been imported from England, but they have furnished
no remedy for the evi!-the English and American
race horse being of the same stock. The dIfrcuhv
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 thev
there caed) valued from 500 TO 5000 pounds stcr
hng-they are considered a consecraied breed, de-
signed for the of the Prophet and his descendants
and great prejudice exists to selling them at all
Tapn, in his Sporting Dictionary published in 1908,
vol l, page AZ, remarks-"hat they are mostly con.
signed presents TO his Majesty of the Royal
Family and their pedigree Of their blood is recorded
with as much and tenacity, the pebeaIogy Of
4 the most Ancient English Nobility" But IL caTnot
be necessary to eulogze this matchess breed of hor
I ses to recommend them to the American sportsman.
he must know that il by crossing on this stUck
that the sluggish and coldbiooded horse of EngI,J
vas converted into the beautiful and hiph-mettIed
courser 1t IS only necessary satisfy him that the
| WINTER ARABIAN is one of true stock-so MANY
attempts nave been made to impose public creduli
/ ty by Pslmng on them spurious horses for the Ara.
ban, that the evidence OF the stock should be
satisfactory and conclusive. The Winter Arabian wss
captured during the late IN 1914, the one wear
old by the privateer Grampus of Baltimore on board
the brig Doris, his Britannia Majestys Transport No
o5O, on her passage from Senegal in Africa to Ports
mouth IN England; and was intended present for
\ I'M rs 70,
Jitss Weekly Register, roll ri page IS
Winter Arabian was sold part Of the cargo of the
captured org, and was purchased by Elisha j. Winter
Esq then a member Of Congress from the state as
New York. after the purchase, he, through a bighIv
respectable mercantile house in New York caused an
inquiry to be made of Colonel Broomield and Mr.
Douglass the superinte ndants of His Majesty, sind a.
hampton Court, by whom he informed that full.
FLOODED Arabian was shipped in the brig Doris from,