Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-05-07

w -fr0bian Stallion will stand a, NV s,.h, ~,
ne county Of Brunswick Ss miles South Of Petersburg
10 miles North East from Brunswick Courthouse (Iaw
renceville,l and Is miles North West from Beli6eM.
and let to Mares at 25 the Season, TO be discharged
cy the payment Of $40 any time in the Season. and one
dollar to the Groom, each case The Season TO com
mence the 18th February, aud terminate the 18th dsv
Oh July. Good pasurage for Mares furnished gratis;
Mares wen fed and strictly attended TO at
price, but no responsibility for escapes or acc idents
r. The Subscriber congratulates the Breeders Of fue
lorses, on ,he opportunity now offered them Of i'm.
proving their Stock, by valuable crossThat the A.
merean and English Race Horse, has greatly detero
rated In the last eighty years. fact that must bs
con % Sy an Intelligent and candid Sporsmen; and
mat mat deterioration has been produced by the prac.
uce oil breeding IN and in, is called Chat IT, from
me same Stock il is presumed will also be admitted
aer the most digen inquiry and careful
oeiieve the most successful Raisers in Virginia ara
persuaded that an occasional resort to the ORIGINAL
VI Orehai Horses Ia as necessary to preserve an
Improved Breed, as IL in the first instance to o.
tam ~ and so far from the direct cross not producin,
,ne hhes animals both for strength speed and beauty
edPaoe oil proof and the history Of the English
Neee morse WIN demonstrate it, that the best Racers
and Breeders England ever had, were the sons and
daughters, and at iarhest, the grandsons and grand
daughters OF the Arabian and that they have ,epre
GATED In proportion they were remoy ed from these
points. The hrs evidence would offer in support of
me assertion IL the established weights the English
Coursc at different dates, from the time of the mira
Iucuen OF the barley Arabian, until the death of Inc
Godolphin Arabian; which included period Of about
n nry years They were breeding extensively from
O'ienta Horses, including Barbs and Turks. DURING
,hat entire pero' their Horses continued to improye
IN speed and bottom, while the weights were greatly
increased aged horses then carried I6S hounds anJ
WIN mat they ran four miles, from seven minutes
twenty seconds, TO seven minutes fifty seconds; from
tnat lime, say from 1910 to IT'S 10 the days OF Ecpse
'ney discontinued the breeding from the Arabian and
'heir weights have been gradually sing; ON some
tracks TO 10 pounds; and none believe are thew
ngner 'han i33 rounds; yet there is not in Eng.
ano or America Racer that the distance in tho
same time in which formerly done with their
weights The next evidence is. the Horses
barley Arabian Flying Chders who is said 10 have
IN ~ ia H.
ing Chiders got many hne Racers; but none that equal
,ed himself Godophn Arabian got the dam Of Eclipse
OUT Eclipse never got his equal though he got
many hne Racers-vz: Reguus Volunteer kc-
heguus got many Champions of the turf but neither
nm nor his progeny produced another Reguus. YER
'nmnus got Barone,, but Baronet never got Horse ss
successful on the turf himself Sire Voluntee err
got Spread Eagle, Sterling, SC but Sterling and
E'gle never got their own equal, much less
me equal oil Volunteer. Janus and Fearnough hit were
GOV oy Godoiplin Arabian; during the DAYS OF those
Horses Virginia Wa. famed for fine Saddle Horses, as
wei as distinguished Racers; now il is almost proven
hid that the Blood Horse of Virp mia rarely
a h9e Saddle Horse nor have we, believe single
ufi iorse capable OF running four miles with I6S
pounds (the former weights) in good time-Our bes
Races are made by young Horses carrying LIGHT
weights; and IT fact, and which is well worthy
me consideration OF Resers that with the present light
weights, many OF first Horses break down in train
ing ana very lew remain longer than two years on the
uri Their bone sinew, and muscle, are not in pro-
portion TO their size and weight-snd their legs often
give way In training exercise. IL is believ ed there is
not now in the United States, single high. blooded
Horse that has not descended from the same Stock
VIZ: the Godolphin Arabian and, generally speaking
both by dam and Sire. Can a strong active heaItbv
and vigorous Horse, be reasonably expe cted by propa
gazing from such near conneXionsl Every Farmer
knows the effect OF crossing and in has on Cattle
Sheep &c; but we not to have anticipated the
consequence TO the noble and use full of animals
by The violation of the law Of nature, which forbids
ncestuous sonnexions but it carries with il its own
corrective, in the slow but certain destruction of the
species; such being the consequence of our system,
IL would seem strange that we continue to pursue it,
na tO ALT
me Horses have been imported from England but
'hey have furnished no remedy for the evl-the En-
glish and American Race Horse being of the same
Stock. The difficulty and enor nous expensc of oh.
tanning the true -blooded Arabian, has prevented the
importation oil many OF them into this Country. IL is
sacred blood, (as they there caled0 are valued
from 900 to $4,000 serling-they considered con-
secated breed for the of the Popbet and
his descendants; and great prejudice exists to selling
them at all Taplin in his Sporting Dictionary pub.
l''hed In 1903, Vol l, page Al, remarks-'that they
are mostly consigned his Mai sty or some
OF the Royal Family, and their pedigree of tier blood
recorded with much and tenacity as the ge
neaogy OF the most Ancient English Nobility" But
cannot be necessary eulogize this natchess breed
oil horses, TO recommen nd them to the American Snors.
man. ne must know, that i, was by crossing on this
Stock, that the sluggish cold bloded Horse nj Eng
land was converted into the beautiful and hieh.met.
lied Conrser II only necessary satisfy him that
me W'ifT arabian is one of true Stock-so many
attempts have been made to impose on Public creduIi-
by palmng on them spurious Horses for the Arabian
mat the evidence Of the true Stock should he sats
hc'ory ana conclusive. The Winter arabian was
captured during the late in 1911 then one wear
DID, by the Privateer Grnmpus of Baltimore on board
the brig Dris, his Britanic Majesiys Transport No
ooo' on her passage from Senegal in Ahca Ports
mouth III England: and intended ne a present for
the then Prince Regent, now King of Eng land. (Sec
."Hss tTeek'y Register, P0I. VII page I60
W'nter drGbiGn was sold a part Of the cargo Of
the captured Brig, and was purchased by Elisha Win
ter, ESqr then member OF Congress from the State
OF New York; aer TIE purchase, he, through a high.
W respectable Mercantile House in New York caused
an Inquiry TO he made OF Colonel Bloomfield and Mr.
Douglas the Superintendent of His Maesy's Stud at
Hampton Court, by whom he was informed that a
iui-booded Arabian shipped in the Brig Doris from
senegal, Tor his Majesty and there was no doubt of
his being OF the best Arabian Stock This correspon-
dence, with Mr. Winters certificate that he is the
same Horse, with many other evidences are in nv
possession, and WILDE exhibited 10 any genten an who
wishes to raise Jroty him. All those " no have seen
him admire his superiority Of fo-m, beauty and hiny
hardness oil limbs; his fine, silky, flowing name and
lai; elastic and spTiehuy movements; great share of
bone and muscle; indeed, the only objection to him. or
which can be taken 10 him, is his size-beng about
Tour leet nine or ten inches high: this iii, be an
Objection applies TO the whole race: and had England
permitted this PREJUDICE TO IL fence her. she couJ NOT
have had her Chlders or her Eclipse her Reguus or
her King Fergus, her Doomed, or Baronet-nor conH
America have had her Arciy, her ARIEL her Henry or
Long lslSn her Eclipse: these are all descendant, of
the Arabian Stock, ard neither f. gland or America
has ever yet produced Race Hore ha, did not par,sks
largely of the bo1d. His size is evidence of hi ock
Button. the celebrated French naturalist speaking Of
them, says, they rarely exceed four feet eight In.
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