Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-06

teen northwest of Bel6eld and be let to mares at
thirty Dollars the season. to be discharged by the pay
me mt Of twenty Dollars any time during the season.
ten Dollars the lean, and fifty dollars the insurance,
and one Dollar in every to the groom. The
son will commence the 18th of February and terni-
nate the 10th OF July. Good pasturage for
gratis-anA those who wish. can have them well fed
and strictly attended to at reasonable price; but
responsibility for escapcs or accidents.
The subscriber congratuateS the breeders of fine
horses on the opportunity now offered them of I'M
proving their stock, by valuable cross. That the
American and English race horse has greatly deter
lorated in the last eighty years is fact that must be
conceded by all ne lIgen; and candid sportsmcn: and
that, that deterioration has been produced by the
practice of breeding IN AID IN, it called THAT
is, from the same stock it is presumed will also be
admitted. AT or the most iirgent inquiry and care
ul investigation, believe the most successful ras
crs in Virginia are pursucded that occasional re-
10 the original stock OF oriental horses is as nc
cessGry To preserve an improved breed. Il III
the first instance TO obtain II: and ST. far from the
direct cross not producing the finest animals bot tor
strength, speed and beauty 1t is capable of proof,
and the history of the English horse will demon.
strue it. that the best racers and breeders England
ever had, the sons and daughters, and at far
thcSi, the grand sons and grand daughters OF the
ArabIan and that they have DEPRECATED in proper
ton as they removed from these points. The
first evidence would offer support of the asser-
ton is, the established weights the English course
al different dates, from the time of the mtroduc,o
Of the barley Arabian until the death of the Go
dolphin Arabian; which included period of about
fifty years. They were breeding extensively from
orient al horses, including B,rbs and Turks During
that period, their horses continued 10 improve
IN speed and bottom, while the weights were greatly
nHease6 aged horses then cd los pounds and
SIr, at ran four miles, from seven minutes twenty
sec%rT. 10 seven minr:cs fifty seconds from that
time say from 1870 10 1875 10 tin" GavS Cf Eclpsc
they discontinued the breeding from TIC Arab an
and their weights have been gradually d.crcasirr;
some tracks To 10 pounds; and on not. believe
are they h hcr thsn l33 pounds; yet there Is not
nowin England or America n racer that can run tho
distance III the same sine III which /, was former,
done with their heavy weights. The next evidences
Is, She horses themselves. barley Arabian got Fiy-
ing Chders, who is said To have run four miles IN
SIX minutes and tGriy seconds. Fiyin- Chi,Gcys -rt
many Enc racers; b;t nome that ,QlalleI hlf;s,r
G"dolphn Arabian got the dam Of Eclipse. BIZ,
Eclipse never got his equal. though he got many
fine racers-v'Z; Rcgull!S Volunteer. &c. RrcuIu,
got many champions e the turf but neither him nor
his progeny produced another R"gucs Neriunnus
got Bsronet, but Baronet ncveT got horse as SIC.
cessful on the turf as himself sire. Volunteer cot
Spread Eagle, Sterling, &C.; but Sterling and Sure,d
Eagle got their equal much less the equal
OF Volunteer. Janus and Fearnought were go, ny Cos
dolphin Arabian. During the days If those horses tir
ginia was famed Cor fine saddle horses, as we'll as
distms ushed racers; now, it Is almost prov erhia tina,
the blood horse of Virginia rarely produces fine
saddle horse: nor have we, | believe, a SINGLE
turf horse capable OF running four miles with
.o8 pounds lthe former weights in good time
Our best races are made by young horses CARVING,
!isht weights and it is fact. and which is well
worthy the consideration ct rsScTs, that M the re.
sent ,t weights many of our first horses break down
IN training, and very few main longer than two wears
on the turf Their bone sill sw and muscle are not in
proportion to their SIZE and weiph-aah their legs of,
ten give way in training exercise II is believed there
is not in the United States single high>bIooded
horse that has descended from the same stock VIZ
the Godolphn Arabian. and generally speaking boby
and sire. Cn strong, active, healthy and viunr-
Gus horse be reasonably expected by pr0paca,in from
such near connexions? Every farmer knows the effect
crossing in and in has on cattle, sheep, &C; but we
seem not To have anticipated the consequence TO the
most noble and useful of animals, by TIA violation of the
law Of nature, which forbids incesluous connexions;
hut II carries with II its own corrective. in the slow bu.
certain destruction Of the species. Such being the con.
sequence OF our system, it would strange that
we continue tn pursue t-Many attempts have been
made 10 ter -many Gne horses have been imported
from England, hut they have furnished no remedy for
the eyl-:he English and American race horse being
Df the stock The difficulty and enormous ey.
pense of obtaining the bloodcd Arabian has pre-
vented the importation of many of them into this
counTy. II is affirmed By writer's and travellers thai
those Of the sacred blood (as they are called are VAL
ued from 500 TO 5000 pounds sterling-thry are con- /
siderch consecraed breed designed for the Use Of
the Prophet and descendants; and great preiu.
dice exists TO selling them at all Tapn, in his Snort
ing Dictionary published in 1905, vol. l. page az re
msrks-"that they are mostly consigned as presents
to his Majesty or some of the Royal Family, aud their
pedigree Of their blood is recorded with as much care
and tenacjty, as the FeneaIogy of the most ancient
English Nobility" But, it canno. be necessary to eu
logic this matchless breed of horses to recommend
them to the American sportsman; he must know that
was 10y crossing this stock that the sluggish and
cold-bloUIed horse of England, was converted into
the beautiful aud high melted 1t is oniy ne
TO satisfy him that the WINTER ARABIAN (
is one Of true stock-so many attempts have been
made TO impose on public creduIi;y by psuing on
them spurious horses for the Arabian that the evidence
"a the stock should be satisfactory and conclusive
The Winter Arabian captured during the late war
Of 81, then year old, by the priva,cer Grampus
Of Baltimore, on board the brig Doris, hs Britannia
hsjesty's Transport, No. $50, her passage from
Senegalin Africa, TO Portsmouth, in England and was
intended as present for the then Prince Regent late
King Of England. See Niles Weekly Register, vol
.Ii. page 49,
Winter Arabian was sold as part of the cnrgo Of
The captured brig, and was purchased by Elisha J. /
Winter Era. then member Of Congress from The
State Of New York. after the pdrchase he through .
highly respectable mercantile house IN New York !
cansed ar inquiry 70 be made os Colonel Broofnfcld
aud Mr.. Douglas, superintendent Of His Mniesty's
stud OF Hampton Court. by whom he was informed,
that full-b!ood' Arabian shipped IN the brig