Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-26


first evidence would offer in supp r, Of the asser-
ton IL, The established weights on the English course
ut di'rcnt d1'cs, from the time of the ntruduc,io
Of the Darey AFobiaD until the death of tie Co.
dolphin Arablar; which iuoluGsd period OF about
hiiy years They breeding extensively from
oriental horses, Irclni ng BarDs aud Turk. Dur.u-
that entire petud. their horses continued 10 Improve
ia speed and bottom, while the weights wcr. greatly
H'scHs"h aged hursCs then carried 81" pounds urd
Va t"at ran four miles, from seven mluu'es twenty
sec nH+, to seven minutes fifty second; from that
time. soy from 100 10 1875 To the days OF Eclipsc
they discontinued the E!cCdrg from the Aruh.ar.
aud l!efr weights have been gradually deorra.iur;
on some tracks 10 10 pounds; and none believe
are they higher than l33 pounds; vet there l. not
now III Eng and or America that can run the
distance ~ ne Same time which u MAS form. ry
donc WIZ th"IT heavy wtICiIis. Tho nryt evidence.
Is, the hoses themselves. Darby Arabian rot Fiy.
ing ChI'dcrs. Who is SAID TO have run four miles IN,
SIX minutes aud forty seconds Flying Chi'dcys got
many hnc racers; LUt none that cQual'cd himself.
" dolphin Arabian got the dam of Eclipse but
Eclipse never got his own equal, though he got many
me raccrs--yz: Rcgurs, Volunteer. &C. Rrou,us
got many champions at tha turf but neither HIN nor
his progeny produced another Kcgules. Yertu,nnus
got bsronct, but barunet got 4 horse as sue.
cessiui on Tie turf as himself sire. Volunteer got
Spread Eagle, Sterling, &C.; but Sterling and Scresd
Eagle never got their equal, much less the equal
OF Volunteer Janus ard Fesrnoug ht got Dy TO,
dolphin Arabian. During the days of those horses yir.
E!na was famed FOR fine saddle horses, well as
Gs'in uShed racers now, II - almost prov erha that
the blood horse of Virginia rarely produces fife
s"dd'c horse; nor have We, believe, a single
tHri horse Capable OF running four miles with
loo pounds Che former weights in good time
Our best races made by Young horses CARRYING
hight weights; and is fact and one witch is VIII
worthy the consideration of risers that with the ure
sent hight weights many Of our first horses break down
IN training, and few ain longer than TWO wears
on the turf. Their BONE snew, and muscle are not I'm
proportion to their size and weighaRi their legs of
ten give way in training exercise II is believed there
IS not now i'll the Uuited States single highboude
morse that has not descended from the stock viz:
the Eodophin Arabian. and generally speaking bothby
Hs anu sire Con strong, active, healthy and vigor>
Gus hors' be reasonably expected by pro1agatin from
such near eXiuns' Every farmer knows the effect
crossing IN and IN has cattle, sheep, &C. but we
seem not To have anticipated the consequence TO the
most noble and useful OF animals by the violation of the
law of nature, which furbids incestuous connexions
hut 1t carries with its corrective in the slow but
Certain destruction OF the species. Such being the
sequence of Cur system, it would seem strange that
We continue TO pursue it-Many attempts have been
made to alter it-many fine horses have been imported
from England, hut they have furnished no remedy for
the evil-;he English and American race horse being
of the same stock. The difficulty and enormous exo
pense ct obtaining the hiooded Arabian has pre-
vented the importation OF many Of them into this
country. Ii is affirmed by writers and travellers that
those OF the sacred blood s they are caed are val
ued from 500 to 5000 pounds s,erug-they are con.
Sdered consecTated breed, designed for the use of
the Prophet and h descendants; and a great preu.
dice exists to selling them at all Tapn in his Sport.
ing Dictionary published in sos, vol. l. page AZ re
marks-"Isat they are mostly consigned as presents
to his Majesty some Of the ROYAL Family aud their
pedgee of their blood is recorded with as mach care
and tenacity, as the geneaIoEy of the ancient
English Nobility" But, It Cannot be necessary to Gu
ogize this mstchcss breed of horses To nj
them to the American sportsman; he must know ,ha,
II was by crossing on this stock that the sluggish and
cold boOded horse Of England WAS converted in. =
the beautiful and high-metlled courser II is only ne
cessary to satisfy him that the WINTER ARABIAN
10 one of true stock-so many attempts have been
made 10 impose on public creLuiy by palmng ON
them spurious horses for the Arabian that the evidence
IN the true stock should be satisfactory and conclusive
The Winter Arabian captured during the late war
of 181sIthen year DID, by the privatcer Grampus
of Batn ore, board the brig Doris his Bri,annic
Malestys Transport, No. go, her passage from
Senegal in Africa, to Portsmouth in England; and WAS
intended as present for the then Prince Regent, late
King of England. See Niles Weekly Register vol
vii page 49,
Winter Arabian was sold par, of the cargo of
! the captured brig, and was purchased by Elisha J.
/ w inter E.sq. then member Of Congress from the
SKATE ct New York; after TO pdrchase. he through
highly respectable mercantile house in New York
caus cG an inquiry 60 be made of Colonel Broo;nf,L
and Mr.. Douglas, superintendent of His Maiestv's
stud al i'mpon Court. by whom he informed.
that iuH-b!ondtd Arabian was shipped IN the brio
Boris, from Senegal for his Majesty and there wa,
no doubt OF his being If the b. ST Arabian stock This
correspondence, with MIR. Winters certificate tbol
he Is the same horse" with many other evidences, are
IN my possession and viii be exhibited 10 any zen
tleman who wishes to raise from him A!lihOsc wGp
have seen him. admire his superiority of form. beauty
and fiIniy hardness If limbs; his fine, silky hOwIpG
man and iac; elastic cnh sprlghiy movements; great
share Of bone and muS,: indeed the only objection
/ TO him. or which be aiken 10 bin. Is his SIZE
being about four feet rinc ten inches high: this n
be an oiJectlcn applies 10 TIE whc race: and he'd
England permitted tins prejudice 10 Influence her She
could not have had her CHIGcrS or her Eclipse, her
RCgulus. or her King Fergus. her DEEMED or Bgrproi
nor could America have lad her Archv. her Ariel
her Henry, Long Island her Eclipse: these 70 AL
descendants at the ARABIA stock; and neither En-.
gland or America Las ever y't produced race horse
| that did net p1rUtr g-rp.V a. nl OIL r-,