Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-04-13

WINTER ARABiAN--This beautiful and true
w arabian Stallion. will stand at my stable 10
The county oil Brunswick. 33 miles South OF Petersburg
10 miles North Eas, from Brunswick Courthouse claw
renceville) and Is miles North West from Bel6eId
and let TO Mares At $25 the Season. TO be DISCHARGED
1y the payment OF any time in the Season, and
dollar 10 the Groom, IN each The Season TO corn.
mence the 10Th February, and terminate the 18Th day
OF July. Good pastursge for Mares furnished gratis.
mares wen led and strictly attended TO at reasonable
price, but NO responsibility for escapes or accidents
The Subscriber congraulates the Breeders of fine
tiorses' on the opportunity now offered them of i'm.
proving their Stock by valuable cross.-Tbut tho A.
mcrlcan and English Race Horse, has greatly de,erio
rated in the last eighty years. Is fact that must he
conceded by all Intelligent and candid Spor,smen; aud
mat that deterioration has been produ by the prac
tee OF breeding IN and in il is called Chat is from
the same Stock) is presumed will also be admitted
aer the most dilgentinqury and careful inv-
heieve the most successful Raiscrs in Virginia are
persuaded that an occasional resort the original
Stock OF Oriental Horses necessary to preserve AN
improved Breed, az it was in the first instance to OBJ
tain III and so lar from the direct cross not producing
the hnes animals both for strength speed and beauty
u Is capable Of proof, and the history Of the English
Nses Horse will demonstrate il, that the best Racers
anu Breeders England ever had, were the sons and
daughters, and at arthest the grand-sons and grand
daughters oil the Arabian and that they have depre-
ciated In proportion they removed from the ga
points. The first evidence would offer i'm s,pnorI NJ
The assertion is the established weights on the Englsh
course at different dates, from the time of the intro
uucuon oil the barley arabian, until the death of the
Sodoiphn Arabian; which included a period of about
niy years. They were breeding extensively from
OHeh'ai fiorses, including Barbs and Turks. During
that entire Peros, their Horses continued 10 improve
IN speed and bottom, while the weights were greatly
increased; aged horses then carried l6S pounds and
WIN mat they ran four miles. from seven minutes
'wehty seconds TO seven minutes fifty seconds from
that llme say from ITO to ITS the DAYS of Ecpse
they discontinued the breeding from the Arabian and
nes weights have been gradually decreasing; some
tracks to ll9 pounds; and none, believe are they
hgner than l33 pounds; yet there is not now in Eng.
land or America Racer that can run the distance in
heavy weights
The next evidence is the Horses themselves Oar.
ley Arabian got Flying Chiders, who is said TO have
run Jour miles in six minutes and forty seconds Fy.
ing Chiders got many fine Racers, but none that equal
led himself Godolphin Arabian got the dam of Eclipse
out Eclipse never got his own equal, though he got
many hne Racers-viZ: Reguius, Volunteer, &e-I
keguus got many Champions of the turf but neither
him nor his progeny produced another Regulus Yer
'umnus got Barone but Baronet never gotta Horse as
successful on the turf as himself or Sire. Volunteer
got Spread Eagle, Sterling, SC; but Sterling and
Spread Eagle never go, their own equal, much less
The equal Of Volunteer Janus and Fearnought were
got by Godop'in Arabian; during the days of those
Horses, Virginia famed for fine Saddle Horses as
well as distinguished Racer; now, il is almost proven
bial that the Blood HORSE Virginia rarely proiuce
a fine Saddle Horse nor have we believe a single
'url Horse capable OF running four miles with l6S
pounds (he former weghts) in good time Our he
Races are made by young Hor.es carrying lieh,
weights and ii fact, and one which is well worthy
the consideration of Raers that with the light
weights many OF our rst Horses break down in train
ing ana very lew remain longer than Years on the
turi: Their bone, snew and muscle, are not in pro-
portion 10 their size and weght-and their legs oft.
give way In training exercise 1t is believed there i,
not now in the United atss, single high. blooded
Horse, that has not descended from the same ock
viz: the Godophin Arabian, and generally speaking
pom oy dam and Sire Can strong, active, healthy |
ana vigorous Horse, b, reasonably ced BY propa
gazing from such near connexions! Every Farmer |
KNOWS the effect of crossing in and in has on Cattle
Sheep, SC; but not to have anticpated tho
consequence to the most noble and useful OF animals
by the violation Of the law Of nau-e which orbids
ncestuous connexions but it carries with it its own
corrective, in The slow but certain destruction of the
speeIes; such being the consequence OF our system
1t would seem strange that we continue 10 pursue it,
many attempts have been made TO alter it,-many |
me HORSES have been imported from Ems land hut
they have furnished no remedy for the eviI-the En-
g'ish and American Race Horse being of The same
sock. me diihculty and enormous exPeno Of OBJ
tanning the true bioo9ed Arabian, has prevented the
importation oil many OF them into this Country Ii is |
affirmed by writers and travellers, that those of the
sacred blood (as they there callcd) are valued
IRON 500 TO $4,000 sterling-they are con,idered con-
secraed breed designed for the Of the Prophet and
ms descendants; and great prejudice exist. TO selling
them at all Taplin, in his Sporting Dictionary nub,
shed in 1903, VOL 1, page Al, remarks-"thst they
are mostly consigned 10 his Majesty or some
OF the Royal Family, and their p.diere. OF their blood
nealogy OF the most Ancient English Nobility" But
II cannot be necessary 10 eulogZe this macb!ess breed
oil horse' TO recommend them to the American Sports.
mar; he must know. that il was by crossing on bi.
Stock that the and cold bocded Horse of Eng
land, was converted into the beautiful and hah.mei
led Courier 1t is only necessary satisfy him that
attempts have been made to impose on Public credu,-
ty by paming them spurious Horses for The Arabian
that tho evidence of the true Stock should be s,us
factory and conclusive. The TJinfer arabian was
captured during the late in 1914, then one wear
OH, by the Prvateer Grampus OF Baltimore ON board
the brig Doris, his Britanic Majesy's TRANSPORT No
600, on her passage from Senegal in Ahca TO Ports.
mouth in England: and was intended as present for
the then Prince Regent, now King of England (See
Nnts' Weekly Register, Pol. VII. page I6)
WINTER arabian sold "a a part of the cargo of
the captured Brig. and purch by Elisha j. Win
ter, Esqr then member of Congress from the State
ly respectable Mercantile House in New York caused
An inquiry TO he made of Colonel Bloomfield and Mr.
Douglas, the Superinendans of His Majesty. Stud al
Hampton Court, by whom he was informed that a
Arabian shipped in the Brig Doris from
Senegal, for his Majesty, and there was no doubt of
his being of the best arabian Stock Tbi. correspon
dencc, with Mr.. Winters certificate that he ia Tho
same Horse, with many other evidences are in nv
and WILDE exhibited any g.n,lcnsn who
wishes to raise hofs him. All those who have seen
him. admire his superiority OF form, beauty and 1ntv
hardness OF limb; his fine, silky. flowing name and
tail; elastic aud sprightly movements, great share Of
bore and muscle; indeed, the only ohie con 10 him or
which can be taken 10 him, is his .ize-beine about
four feet nine ten inches high: this iii be am |
objection, applies to the whole race: and had EnobnJ
permitted this prejudice 10 Influence her. she could not
have had her Chlders, her Eclpsc her Regnius or
her King Fergus, her Don.d or Bironet-nor couH |
America have had her Arcby her Ariel her Henry or
Long Island her Felipe: these are all NJ
the Arabian Stock, and neither England or Ame,ie, |
has ever yet produced Race Horse that did not pat,ke
largely Of the blood. His size is evidence of b STOCK
bufon the celebrated French naturalist, speaking of