Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-03-26

,E Courthouse, LawrencevtlIe ana etGnt-
teen northwest Of Be6eid, and be let to mares at
thirty Dollars season. be discharged by the pay
ment of 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 sea
son will commence the 18th of February, and termi-
nate the 10th of July. Good pastursge for mares
grsts-sud those who wish, can have them well ted
and strictly attended reasonable price; but no
responsibility for escapes or accidents
The subscriber cesgratulates the breeders Of fine
horses, on the opportunity now offered them OF I'M
proving their stock, By valuable cross. That the
Anne rican and English horse has greatly deter
ioraed the last eighty years lie fact that must be
conceded by all intelligent and candid sportsmen and
that, that deterioration has been produced by the
practice Of breeding in and in, IL is called. (tha
u.s. from tho stock) it is presumed will also be
admitted. AT or the diligcnt inquiry and care
ful investigation, believe the successful rails
in Virginia pursucded that occasional re-
sort the original stock OF oriental horses is ne
cessary to preserve improved breed, ss II was in
the first instance 10 obtain IL; und so tar from the
tirec producing the finest animals both for
strength speed and beauty. it rs capable OF proof,
aud the history Of the English horse will demon
strate it, that the best racers and breeders England
had, were the SONS and daughters, and at far
thes, the grand sons and grand. daughters Of the
Arabian: and that they have deprecated in proper
ton they removed from these points. The
FIRST evidence would offer, in support Of the
ton ls, the established weights on the English
at different dates, from the time of the introduction
of the barley Arabian. until the death of the Co
dolphin Arabian; which included period of about
fifty years. They were breeding extensively from
oriental horses including Barbs and Turks. During
that entire period, their horses continued TO improve
IN speed and bottom while the weights were greatly
increased aged horses then carried 1853 pounds and
with that four miles from minutes twenty
seconds, To minutes fifty seconds; from that
time say from 1910 to ITS to the days of Eclipse,
they discontinued the breeding from the Arabian,
and their weights have been gradually decreasing;
on some tracks o pounds; and none, believe,
arc they higher than 1873 pounds; yet there is not
nowin England or America racer that can run the
distance IN the same time in which II was formerly
done with their heavy weights. The next evidence
is the horses themselves. barley Arabian got Fly
ing ChiIders. who s suid to havo run four miles in
six minutes and forty seconds. Flying ChdcrS got
many fine racers but none that equaled himself
Gudolphin Arabian got the dam of Eclipse, but
Eclipse got his own equal, though he got many
fine racers-vz; Reg,ius Volunteer, &c. Reg illus
rot many champions of the turf but neither him nor
his progeny produced another Regules. Vertumnus
got Baronet but Baronct never got a horse sue
cessfu on the turf as himself sire. Volunteer got
Spread Eagle, Sterling, &c. but Sterling and Spread
Eagle got their equal, much less the equal
of Volunteer. Janus and Fearnought got by Co.
dolphin Arabian. During the days of those horses Vir.
GINA was famed for fine saddle horses, we'll
distinguished now, IT is almost proverbia that
the blood horse of Virginia rarely produces fine
saddle horse: have we, | believe, single
turf horse. capable of running four miles with
1873 pounds (t,c former weights in good time.
Our best races are made by young horses carrying
Ii. hit weights; and il is fact, and witch is well
worthy the consideration of rasers, that with the pre-
light weights many Of first horses break down
in training, and very few remain longer than wears
tho t,rrf. Their bone, snew, and muscle in
proportion to their size and weighaHd their legs Of
ten give way in training exercise 1t is believed there
Is not in the United States single high>blooded
horse that has descended from the same stock viz
the Godophin Arabian. and generally speaking, bohby
dam and sire. Can a strong active healthy and vigor-
os horse be reasonably expected by propagstng from
such connexions! Every farmer knows the effect
crossing in and in has on cattle. sheep, &c; bu,
nnf I'm hav ntIT aeIf hP A.
most noble and useful of animals by tn violation Of the
law Of nature which forbids ncestuous come xons.
but it carries with its corrective, in the slow but
Certain destruction OF the species Such being the
sequence of our system, il would seem strange that
we CONTINUE to pursue it-Many attempts have been
made to ter it-many fine horses have been imported
from England hut they have furnished no remedy for
the cv-;he English and American race horse being
of the stock. The difficulty and enormous ex'
pcnse of obtaining the true booded Arabian has pre-
vented the importation of many of them into this
)unry II is affirmed by writers and travellers that
those Of the sacred blood las they called are val
ucd from 500 to 5000 pounds sterling-they con-
the laTorhct and descendants; and a great prem
dce to selling them at all Taplin, in his Sport
ing Dictionary published in 1903, vol. /. page a. re-
narks-"that they mostly consigned as presents
to his Majesty some of the RoyalFamily and their
pedigree Of their blood is recorded with as much care
and .enacty, as the genealogy Of the most ancient
English Mobility" But, It cannot be necessary to
logze this matcbiess breed Of horses, to recommend
them to the American sportsman he must know that
by crossing this stock. tina, the sluggish and
cold blouded horse of England WAS converted in,o
The beautiful and hgh-mettled courser IL is only ne
cessary to satisfy him that the WINTER ARABIAN
is one Of true s,ock-so many attempts have been
made to impose on public creduty by palming on
them spurious horses tor the Arabian that the evidence
Of the true stock should be satisfactory and conclusive
The Winter Arabian was captured during the late war
in 1S14, then one year old. by the prvsieer Srampus
of Baltin ORE board the brig Doris, his Britannia
Majesty's Transport, No. $50, her passage from
Senegal in Africa, to Portsmouth in England; and WIS
intended present for the then Prince Regent hte
King of England. tsee Niles Weekly Register vol
vii. page 49,
Winter Arabian was sold as part Of the cargo of
the captured brig, and was purchased by Elisha J. !
Winter Esq. then n member of Congress from the I
State Of New York; after the purchase !,s through
highly respectable mercantile house in New York
caused ON inquiry 10 be made of Colonel Bloomfield
aud Mr.. Douglas, supcrintcndans Of His M6jesty's
stud at Hampton Court, by whom he was informed
that ful-booded Arabian was shipped in the brig
Doris, from Senegal for his Majesty, and there "a
doubt of his being of the best Arabian etocL