Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-06-17
WINTER ARABIAN.

THIS besutifbl and true Arabian Stallion will stand
u At my stable, in the county of Brunswick, il
miles South Of Petersburg, Is miles Northeast from
Brunswick Courthouse. and 10 miles
Northwest from BellGeld. and let to mares NJ Ss5
the season. TO be discharged by the payment OF So
any time IN the season and one dollar to the srSS
February. and terminate the 18th day Of july Good
pssturage for furnished gratis; mares well ted
aud strictly attended at = reasonable price, but no
responsibility for escapes or accidents.
The subscriber congratuiates the breeders OF hne
horses, on the opportunity now offered them OF I'M
proving their stock, by valuable croes.,Inas the
American and English horse has greatly deterto-
rated in the last eighty years. fact that must be con.
coded by all intelligent aud candid sportsmens and
that, that deterorssion has been producea 1y me
practice of breeding N and as Is Called (that ss
from the same stock,) Il IS presumed will also DC
admitted. After the most dilgent inquiry and careful
investigation. believe the most successful raisers IN
Virginia persuaded that occasional resort to the
original stool. Of oriental horses is ps necessary to
preserve improved breed, as it was in the FIRST
obtain il; and far from the direct cross
producing the finest animals both for strength.
speed aud beauty, Is capable Of proof. and the his
tory Of the English race horse will demonstrate Il,
that the best and breeders England ever had.
were the sons and daughters, and at farthest, the
grand and grand daughters Of the Arabian: and
that they have deprecated in proportion they we're
removed from these points. The 6cst evidence
would offer in support OF the assertion IS, the esa
bnshed weights oa the English course at different
dates. from the time Of the introduction 1.-THE harley
Arabian, until the death of the Godolphin Arabian;
which included PERIOD or ABOUT nfty years. tney
were breeding extensively from oriental horses. in
GLIDING Barbs and Turks During that entire period,
their horses continued improve in speed and bot
tom. while the weights were greatly increased. aged
horses then carried 1913 pounds, and with that they
ran four miles, from minutes twenty seconds TO
seven minutes fifty seconds; from that time, say from
l77o to 177S to the days of Eclipse, they discontinued
the breeding from the Arabian, and their weights have
been gradually decreasing: On tracks to 1l9
pounds; and none, believe, they higher than
lSS pounds yet there is not now in England or Anne
RIGA racer that the distance in the time
in which it formerly done with their heavy weights
The next evidence is the Horses themselves. barley
Arabian got Flying Chlders who is said to have run
four miles six minutes and forty seconds. Flying
Chiders got msny fine racers; but nons that equalled
himself. Godolphn Arabian got the dam Of Eclipse,
but Eclipse never got his own equal, though he got
many ilne racers-viz: Reguias, Volunteer, sc. Re
guus got many champions OF the turf but neither him
nor his progeny produced another Rcgulus. Nertum
nus got Baronet, but Baronet never got horse
successful on the turf as himself sire Volunteer
got Spread Eagle, Sterling, &C.; b." Sterling and
Spread Eagle never got their equal. much les
the equal of Volunteer. Janus and Fearnought were
got BY Godophin Arabian during the days Of those
horses, Virginia famed for fine saddle horses,
well distinguished racers now il is almost proven
ba that the blood horse of Virginia rarely produces
fine saddle horse: nor have We, believe, single turf
horse capable OF running four miles with 168 pounds
(the former weights in good tme.- Our best racers
made by young horses carrying light weights; and
it is fact, and which is well worthy the consdc-
ration Of rasers, that with the present light weights
training,
very few remain longer than two years the turf
Their bone, sinew, aud muscle not in proportion
to their size and weght-and their legs often give
way in training exercise 1t is believed there is not
now IN the United States single high-booded horse
that has not descended from the stock, viz: the
Godolphin Arabian, and, generally speaking, both by
dam and SIRE Can strong, active healthy and vIgor
ours horse be reasonably expected by propaga,ng
from such near connexions? Every farmer knows the
effect Of crossing aud has cattle sheep, &C.;
but We seem not TO have anticipated the consequence
to the most noble and useful of animals by the viola
ton Of the law Of nature, which fUrbds incestuous
connexions, but il carries with it lis corrective,
the slow but certain destruction of the species; such
being the consequence OF our system, it would
strange that we continue to pursue it,many attempts
have been made to alter it,-many fine horses have
been imported from England bu, they have furnished
no remedy for the evil-the English and American
race horse being of 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. II is affirmed by writer's and
travellers that those of the sacred blood las they
there caIled valued from 500 TO 5000 pounds
ling-they considered a consecra,ed breed, de-
signed for the of the Prophet and his
and great prejudice exists to selling them at all.
Taplin, in his Sporting Dictionary published in 1905,
vol I, page AZ, remarks-''that they mostly con-
signed presents to his Majesty some of the Royal
Family, and their pedigree of their blood recorded
with as much and tenacty, rs the genealogy of
the most Ancient English Nobility" But, It cannot
be necessary to euogze this matchess breed of hor
SEES, to recommend them to the American sportsman:
he must know that it was by crossing this stock.
that the sluggish and cold-booded horse Of England,
was converted into the beautiful snd high.mettled
courser II is only necessary to satisfy him that the
WINTER ARABIAN is one of true stock-so many
attempts have been made to impose public credul
ty by palming them spurious horses for the Ara.
biaD, that the evidence Of the stock should be
satisfactory and conclusive The Winter Arabian was
during the late in 1914 the one year
old, by the privateer Grampus Of Baltimore, on board
the brig Doris, his Britannia Najesty's Transport No.
$50, her passage from Senegal in Africa, to Ports
mosih in Epgland: and was intended present for
the then Prince Regent, now King Of England. (See
.Niks' Weekly Register, roll ui, page 1917
Winter Arabian sold part Of the cargo Of the
captured brig, and purchased by Elshs j. Winter,
Esq. then member of Congress from the State Of
New York; after the purchase, he, through a highly
respectable mercantile house 10 New York, caused an
inquiry to be made Of Colonel Broom6ed and Mr..
Douglas, the superintendants Of His Majestys stud
Hampton Court, by whom he informed, that full.
booded Arabian was shipped in the brig DORIS from
Senegal, for his Majesty, und there doubt Of
his being of the best Arabian stockThis correspon-
dence, with Mr.. Winters certificate, that he is the
same horse, with many other evidences. in my
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