Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-05-25
WINTER ARABIAN.

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Brunswick Courthouse. Iawrcuccvillc) and 10 miles
Northwest from BellGcld. and let to mares at SIS
the season, to be discharged by the pay OF $50
any time in the season. and one dollar 10 the groom.
il each case. The season to commence the 18th at
February, and terminate the 18th day of July. Good
pssturage for mares furnished grats mares well fed
and strictly attended to at reasonable price, but no
responsibility for escapes accidents.
The subscriber congratulates tue breeders of fine
horses, on the opportunity now offered them of inn
proving their stock, by valuable cross.-That the
American and English race horse has greatly detcrio-
rated in the last eighty years. is fact that be
I coded by all intelligent and candid sportsmcn and
that, that deterioration has been produced by the
practice OF breeding M ond m rs it is called Chat is,
from the same stock,) 1t is presumed will also be
admitted. After the most diligent inquiry and careful
investigation believe the most successful raisers in
Virginia persuaded that an occasional resort to the
original stock Of oriental horses is AS necessary to
preserve improved breed, il was in the frs,
instance to obtain III and Tar from the direct cross
not producing the finest animals both for strength,
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 Eng land had,
were the and daughters, and at far,hest the
grand.sons and granddaughter OF the Arabian: and
that they have deprecated III proportion they
removed from these points. The Il evidence !
would offer in support of the assertion is, tie es;a
blished weights the English course at dl'eren,
dates, from the time of The introduction o It'll harley
Arabian, until the death of tho Godolphin Arspian;
which ncluded period of about fifty wears. rhcy
were breeding extensively from oriental horses i'm.
GLIDING Barbs and Turks During that entire period
tom, while the weights greatly increased; aged
horses then carried l6S pounds, and with tina, they
ran four miles, from minutes vent, seconds to
seven minutes fifty seconds; from that time say from
l770 to 1775 the days Eclipse they discontinued
the breeding from The Arabian and their weghts have
been gradually decreasing; some tracks 10 1l9
pounds; and on none, believe they higher than
lSo pounds; yet there IS not in England Ame-
RIGA racer that can run the distance in the time
IN which was formerly done with their heavy weights
The next evidence IS the horses themselves. barley
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four miles IN SIX minutes and forty seconds. Flying
CMdcrs cot many fine racers; but none that eQuaed
himself GudOlphn Arabian got the dam of Ecipse
but Eclipse never got his own equal, though he got
many line raccrs-viz Regulus, Volunteer, sc. Re.
gu!uS got many champions OF the turf but neither him
nor has progeny prnduced another Regulus. Ncr,um.
nus got BarOnet, but Baromet never got a horse IS
successful on the turf as himself sire Volunteer
got spread Eagle, Sterling, SC; but Sterling and
Spread Eagle never got their own equal, much less
the equal of Volunteer. Janus and Fearnought were
got by Godolphn Arabian; during the DAYS of those
horses, Virginia famed for fine saddle horses, as
ven as distinguished racers now, 1t is almost proven.
bai that the blood horse of Virginia rarely produces
tine saddle horse: nor Lave believe, single turf
horse capable OF running four miles with l68 pounds
the former weights III good time. Our best racers
are made by young horses carry ing light weights; and
II is fact, and which is well worthy the consde.
ration OF raisers that with the present light weights
many OF our first horses break down IN training, and
very teT remain longer than years on the turf
Their bone, s'new, and muscle are not in proportion
TO their size and weght-and their legs often give
way IN training IL is believed there is not
now IN the United States single high boodeh horsa
that has descended from the same stock VIZ: tho
Godo!phin Arabian, and, generally speaking, both by
dam anu sire Can strong, active, healthy and vcor.
Gus horse be reasonably expected by propagatng
from such near connexions Every farmer knows the
effect OF crossing and Ia has on cattle sheen &c
OUT we seem not 10 nave anticipated the consequence
to the most noble and useful OF animals bv The viola,
ton of the law OF nature, which frbids incesuous
connexions but it carries with il its own corrective
in the slow but certain destruction of the speoic such
4 hett, IA fNt.
strange that we continue TO pursue it,-Inany attempts
have 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 Amer,c,p
race horse being OF the same stock. Tho difficulty
and enormous expense of obtaining the true bloodeh
Arabian, has prevented the importation of manv of
them INTO this country. 1t is affirmed by writers and
travellers, that those of the sacred blood as they are
there Called are valued from 500 5000 pounds s,cr
hng-they are considered a consecra,ei breed de-
signed for the of the Prophet and his
and great prejudice exists to selling them at all,
Iaphn, IN his Sporting Dictionary published in 1905
vol l, page AZ remarks"lhat they are mostly con.
signed as presents TO his Majesty of the ROYAL
Family and their pedigree of their blood IS recorded
with as much and enacity, as the genealorv of
the most Ancient English Nobility" But, it cannot
be necessary to euiogze this matchess breed of hor
ses, to recommend them to 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 hiEh-met,led
courser. II is only necessary satisfy him that II
WINTER ARABIAN is one of true stock-so rnan,,
attempts have been made to impose on public creduli
~ by paimng on them spurious horses for the Ara.
ban, that the evidence OF the true stock shoud he
satisfactory and conclusive. The Winter Arabian was
captured during the late war in 1915 then one wear
old, by the prIvateer Grampus of Baltimore on board
the brig Doris, his Britannia MaJesty's Transport No
o3o, 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 lSce
yNdcS' " tCdiy Register, rot. page l6A
Winter Arabian 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; alter 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 superlntendans of HIS Maesy's stud al
Hampton Court, by whom he informed tina, a C,
blooded Arabian was shipped in the brig Doris from
Senegal, for his Majesty, ind there was no doubt of
hIs beng OF the best Arabian stock-This corrcsDor
dcnce WIN Mr. winters certificate, that he is the
same horse, with many other evidences are in mo
possession, and will be exhibited TO any gentleman
who wishes to raise from him All those who have
seen him, admire his superiority of FORM beauty and
hlnty hardness of limbs; his fine, silky nowiu, M.