Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-05


W. will stand again my stable in the coun-
E-n ~ Of brunswick, about 6fty.6ve miles
South of Richmond, and thirty-,hree
South Of Petersburg-ffteen north.e east
of Brunswck Courthouse, Lawrenceville. and eight.
teen northwest OF Bel6eid, and be let to at
thirty Dollars the season, to be discharged by the pay
ment at twenty Dollars any time during the season.
ten Dollars the leap, and fifty dollars the insurance,
and one Dollar in every to the groom. The
son win commence the 18th of February. and termi
nate the 10th Of July. Good pastursge for mares
srstisMand those who wish. can have them well fed
and strictly attended to at reasonable price; but no
responsibility for escapes or accidents.
The subscriber cOngratulstes the breeders of tine
horses the opportunity un@ offered them OF I'M
proving their stock, by ayulusble cross. That the
American aud English race horse has greatly deter
orated in the last cighy years s fact that must be
conceded by NIL Intelligent ynd candid sportsmct aud
that, that deterioration MS been producod by the
practice o. breeding and IN, as il is called. hat
is from the same stock It is presumed will ALTO be
admitted. At er the most digent inquiry and care
full investigation, believe the most successful rails
ers in Virgnin are pursurded that on occasonal re-
sort TO the original stock OF oriental horses
ccssary TO preserve improved breed, as it in
the frs, instance to obtain Il: and far from the
direct cross producing the finest animals both tor
strength. speed and beauty, It rs capable OF proof
and the history of the English race horse will demon
stratc it, that the best racers aud breeders England
ever had, the and daughters, and ut far
thcst, the grand sons and grand-daughters OF the
Arablen and that they have DEPRECATED in proper
first evidence would offer in support Of the asser-
ton is the established weights the English course
different dates, from the time of the introduction
Of the barley Arabian. until the death Of the Go
dolphin Arabian; which included u period of about
fifty years. They were breeding extensively from
oriental horses, including Barbs and Turks. During
that entrc period, their horses continued to improve
in speed and bottom, while the weights were greatly
| u Ieoseh aged horses then carried ic8 pounds and
VIA, ut ran four miles. from minutes twenty
sccrAse. TO Minutes fifty seconds; from that
time s?y from 1870 TO I775 To the days of Eclipse
they discontinued the breeding from the Arabian,
aud their weights have been gradually decreasing;
on some tracks to lI9 pounds and on none, believe
are they higher than i33 pounds; yet there Is not
now in England or America racer that run the
distance in the same time i'll which it formerly
dune with their heavy weights. The next evidence
Is, the horses themselves. barley Arabian Got Fly
ing Childcrs. who is SAID TO have run four miles in
six minutes and fnrty seconds Flying Clicrs cut
many fine racers; but none that rqualed hirnsclf
G"do'phin Arabian rot the dam of Eclipse but
Eclipse never got his equal, though he rot many
got many champions of the turf but neither n m nor
his progeny produced another R"gucs Verumnus
got Baronei, but Baronet never got horse as sue.
cessfu the turf himself sire. voluntce, ro,
Spread Eagle, Sterling. &c.; but Sterling and Spread
Eagle never got their own equal much less the equal
of Volunteer. Janus and fearnuught were got ny Gu.
dolphin A'aban. During the days Of those horses. vr.
Gnia was famed for fine Saddle horses we'll as
dtnl uished racers; now IL IL almost provcrbal that
the blood horse of Virginia rarely produces u fine
saddle horse: have we, believe, a Single
turf horse capable OF running four miles with
1863 pounds uhe former weights in good time.
Our best races made by Young horses Carving
Ii hit weights; and il is fact, and which is well
worthy the consideration of rsers that with the pre
sent light weights many of first horses break down
in training, and very few remain longer than years
the turf. Their bone snew, and muscle are not in
proportion to their size and weghtand their legs of,
ten give way in training exercise. II is believed there
is in the United States a single hig-blooted
horse that has descended from the stock viz:
the Godophin Arabian. and generally speaking, boyhby
dam and sire Can strong, active healthy and vigor-
horse be reasonably expected by Iropagatng frm
such connexions Every farmer knows the effect
crossing and in has cattle, sheen, &c; but we
To have anticipated the qucnce to the
noble and useful of animals, by IN violation of the
law of nature which fOrbds incestuous connexions:
but it with il its corrective in the slow but
Certain destruction of the species Such being the con-
sequence OF our system, would Seem strange that
we continue to pursue it-Many attempts have been
made To ter it-nany fine horses have been imported
from England hut they have furnished no remedy for
the evil-the English and American race horse heinz
of the stock. The difficulty and enormous ex'
pense Of obtaining the rue.bIooded Arabian has pre-
vented the importation OF many of them into TIN,
oun,ry. Il is affirmed by writer's and travellers tina,
of the sacred blood they called) are val
ucd from 500 To 5000 pounds stcrling-ihey are con-
siered consecraed breed, designed for the use ar
the Prophet and II descendants; and great preir.
dice exists to selling them al all Tap I'm his Spnr,
ing Dictionary published in 1903, vol !, page IL re
marks-".hat they are mostly consigned as presents
10 his Majesty or some of the Royal Family, and their
pedigree Of their blood is recorded with as much care
and enacity, as the genealogy of the most ancien,
English Nobility" But il caiInot be necessary To Gu.
logic this matchless breed Of horses TO recommend
them TO the American sportsman; he must know that
WIS by crossing this stock. that the sluggish and
coldblouded horse Of England. WAS converted into
the beautiful and high melted courser II is only ne
ccssary "a satisfy him that the WINTER ARABIAN
is one of true stock--so many ATTEMPTS have bc.,
made to impose on public credulity by palmng on
them spurious horses for the Arabian that the evience
in the stock should be satisfactory and conclusive
The Winter Arabian captured during the late war
Of 1914, then year old, by the prvateer Grampus
Of Baltimore, board the brig Doris his Britannia
Majesy's Transport, No. 65O on her passage from
Senegal in Africa to Portsmouth IN England and was
inIended as present for the then Prince Regent late
King Of England. See Niles Weekly iieglscr, VOL
vii. page l6D
Winter Arabian sold as part of the cargo of
the captured brig, and was purchased by Elisha j.
Winter Esq. then u member Of Congress from the
State Of New York; after the pirchaso he through
highly respectable mercantile house in New York /
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