Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-12
WINTER ARABIAN.


brunswick Courthouse. (Lawrcncevillc,) and 10 miles
Northwest from Dellncd. and let TO mares at Sc5
the season, tn be discharged by the payment Of $50
any time IN the season and dollar to the groom,
IN each case. 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 ut reasonsbe price but no
responsibility for escapes or accidents.
The subscriber eongrstulates the breeders Of enc
horse. on the opportunity now offered th"1 oil nm
proving their stock, by . valuable cross-That the
American and English horse has greatly deterio
rated in the last eighty years fact that must be
ceded by all intelligent and candid sport5nen; and
that that deterioration has been produced by the
practice of breeding m and it is called, Chat
froo the same stock,I 1t is presumed will also be
admitted. After the most diligen 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, it in the FIRST
Instance obtain il; and Ia from the direct
producing the finest animals both for s,rengtb,
speed and beauty, it Is capable OF proof, and the his
tory of tn English horse will densonsirste il,
tia, the best and breeders England had,
the and daughters, and at farthest, the
grsGd sons and grand.dsughcrs of the ArabIan: and
that they have deprecated IN proportion they
removed from these points. The n''t evidence
would otter in support oil the assertion is, the esta
blshed weights the English course at different
dates from the time Of the introduction 1.-THE harley
Arahisn, until the death OF the Godolphin Arabian;
which included period Cf about fifty years. They
breeding C. tensively rom oriental horses, in
C.udng Barbs and Turks. During that entire period,
their horses continued 10 improve in speed and bot
tom, while the weights greatly increasedi aged
horses then carried 1853 pounds and with that they
four miles, from minutes twenty seconds,
seven minutes fifty seconds; from that time, say from
1870 l775 the days 0f Eclipse they discontinued
the breeding from the Arabian, and their weights have
been gradually decreasing; on some tracks to l 10
pounds; and on none, | believe are they higher than
1S5 pounds yet there is not now in England or Anne
RIGA that the distance IN the same time
in which formerly done with their heavy weights
The next evidence is the horses themselves barley
Arabian cot Flying Chlders, who is said to have
four miles . six minutes and forty seconds. Flying
Childers got many fine racers but none that euuaIled
himself Godolphin Arabian sot the dam of Eclipse,
but Eclipse got his equal, though he got
many dne racers-viz: Rcgulps, Volunteer, &c Re
gnlus got many champions of the turf but neither him
nor his progeny produced onother Rcgulus. Vertun-
nus got Baronet, but Barouct got horse as
successful on the turt himself sire. YClunter
got Spread Eagle, Sterling, &c; but Sterling and
Spread Eagle never got their own equal, much less
the equal of Volunteer Janus and Fearnousht were
got By Godophin Arabian; during the days Of those
horses, Virginia famed for fine saddle horses as
wen as distinguished racers, now, it is almost proven
ba that the blood horse of Virginia rarely produces
fine saddle horsn have we, believe, . single turf
horse capsule of running four miles with 16S pounds
the former weights in good time Our best racers
made by young horses carrying Eight weights; and
il is fact, and which is we'll worthy the eonside
ration OF 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 sinew, and muscle are not in prDportion
10 their size and weght--and their legs often give
way training exercise. II believed there is not
now in the United States single hgh-bIooded horse
that has not descended from the stock Wis the
GodoPhin Arabian, and generally speaking, both by
dam and sire Can strong active, healthy viEor-
Gus horse be reasonably expected by propaCaIine
from such near connexions! Every fsSner knows the
effect Of crossing and "a has on cattle sheen &c
but seem not have anticipated the CONSEQUENCE
TO the must noble and useful OF anmaIs kv the viola
ton Of the law of nature, which fDrsds incezsuou,
cOnoexorI but 1t carries with it ic corrective
10 ths doV but certain destruction Of the Species
being the conse quenco of system, il would seen
strange that We continue to pursue t,-many ATTEMPTS
have been made To alter it,-many fine horses bsve
been imported from England but they have furnish
no remedy for tho evil-the English and American
race b0rss being OF the same stock. The difIicuhv
and enormous expense Of obtaining the true blooded
Arabian, has prevented the importation Of many of
them into this country. is drmed by writer's and
travellers that those of the sacred blood as thev are
there Called valued from 500 5000 pounds ster-
hng-they are considered 4 consecrated breed de.
signed for the Of the Prophet and his descendants;
and great prejudice exists TO selling them at all.
IapliD IN his Sporting Dictionary published in 1903
vol !, page AZ, reInSks-'Ihat they are mostly con.
signed SspresenIs TO his Majesty or some of the Rov.I
Family, and their pedgres of their blood is recorded
9th as much care and tenacty, as the geneaory OF
lbe most Ancient English Nobility" But, it cannot
be necessary euogIze this machless breed of hur
ses, to recommend them TO the American sportsman.
DO olust know. that it by crossing on this stoc
that the sluggish and cOld-bOoded horse Of England
gas converted into the beautiful and heh-msttled
courser. II is only necessary satisfy him that the
WINTER ARABIAN is one of true stock-so many
~ by paming on them spurious horses for the Ara
bian, that the evidence of the stock should be
satisfactory and conclusive. The Winter Arabian was
captured during the late IN ~, then one wear
old, by the privSeer Grampus of Baltimore on board
the brig Doris, his Britannia Majesy's Transport No
ESQ., on her passage from Senegal in Africa to Ports
mouth in England; and was intended present for
the then Prince Regent King of England CSee
-Thes' Weekly Register, vol rat pags'lG
Winter Arabian was sold part of the cargo Of the
captured brig and purchased by Elisha j. Winter,
Esq. then member Of Congress- from the State of
New York; after the purchase, he, through a highly
respectable mercantile house in New York caused an
inquiry to be made Of Colonel Bloomfield and Mr.
Douglas, the superntendants Of lis Maiestys stud m
Hampton Court, by whom he informed that a full.
blooded Arabian was shipped in the brig Doris, from
Senegal, for his Majesty, und there WAS no doubt of
his being OF the best Arabian stock.-Th5 cUrrespon-
dcnce, with Mr.. Winters certificate that he is the
same horse, with msny other evidences. are i'm nv
possesslon, and will be exhibited 20 any gentleman
who wishes to raise from him. All those who have
seen him, admire his superiority Of FORM beauty and
hinty hardness Of limbs his fine, silky, flowing mane
ard ta elastic and sprighy movements; great share
Of bone and muscles indeed the only objection 70 him
or which can be taken to him, IS his sze-benr about
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