Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-14

of Rrunswick Courthouse, LavrcnceviIle. and eight
teen northwest of Bel6eld, and be let to at
thirty Dollars the season, to be charged by the pay
ment of twenty Dollars any time during the season
ten Dollars the leap, and fifty dollars the Insurance.
son will commence the 18th Of February. and term
nate the 10th of July. Good pasturage for mares
gratis-and those who wish, can have them well fed
and strictly attended to at reasonable price; but no
responsibility for escapes orfaccidcn,s.
Tho subscriber congrotulstes the breeders Of fine
horses, the opportunity now offered them of I'M
proving their stock. by valuable cross. That the
American aud English race horse has greatly deter
oratcd in the last eighty years. is fact tha must be
conceded by ell intelligent and candid sportsmcn; and
/. at, that deterioration has been produced by the
practice of breeding in and IN, II called THAT
Is, from the stotk.) it is presumed will also be
admitted AT or the most dlligrnt inquiry and care
tnl investigation, believe the most successful ras-
crs in Virginia are pursuedcd that an occasional re-
The original stock OF oriental horses is nc
cessary preserve an improved breed il was in
the first instance to obtain IT. and so far from the
direct not producing the finest animals both for
strength. speed and beauty, it rs capable Of proof,
and tho history of the English horse will demon
strac it. that the best and breeders England
had were the sons and daughters, and at far
thcst, the grand and grand daughters of the
Ara6ian and that they have DEPRECATED in proper
ton they were removed from these points. The
first evidence would offer. support of the
ton s, the established weights the English
different dates, from the time of the introduction
of the barley Arabian. until the death Of the Go
dolphin Arabian: which included period of about
| fifty years. They 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 greatly
easedh aged horses then carried c8 pounds and
wx@ e. at ran four miles. from minutes twenty
sccCh'%. TO seven Minutes fny seconds; from that
time say from 1870 10 1875 To the days of Eclipse,
they discontinued the breeding from the Arabian,
| and their weights have been gradually drcrcasng;
on some tracks to I9 pounds and on none, believe,
! they higher than I33 pounds; yet there Is not
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| distance IN the same time in which 1t formerly
done with their heavy weights. The next evidence
is. the horses themselves. barley Arabian got Fly
ing ChiIdcrs, who Is snId TO have four miles in
minutes aud forty seconds Flying Childers rot
many fine raccrs; but none that tgu1llcd himself
G"dophln Arabian got the dam of Eclipse, bot
Eclipse go, his equal, though he got many
fine racers-v'z; Reguius, Volunteer, &c Rceulus
got many champions of the turf but neither HIN nor
| his progeny produced another Regues. VertuInnrs
got Bsronet, but Baronct got horse as sic.
cessfu on the turf himself sire Volunteer got
Spread Eagle, Sterling, &c. but Sterling and Spread
Eagle never cot their equal, much less the eCral
Of Volunteer Janus and Fearnought got by Co.
dolphin Arabian Daring the days of those horses Yir
gnia was famed for fine saddle horses, we'll as
dstins uished racers now, it is almost proverbis tina,
the blood horse OF Virginia rarely produces n fine
saddle horse: nor have We, l believe, a single
turf horse capable OF running four miles with
lob pounds the former weights) in good time
Our best races made by Young horses CARRYING
light weights; and il a fact aud one which is well
lie
sent Tight weights many Of first horses break down
in training, and very few remain longer than two wears
on the t,rf. Their bone, sinew and muscle are not in
proportion to their size and veiBhaad their legs Of,
ten give way training eNercrse Ii is believed iher
Is not now III the United States single higb> blooded
horsr that has descended from STOCK VIZ,
the Godophin Arabian. and generally speaking, bobby
dam and sire Can strong, active, healthy and vSur-
os horse be resSnaby expected by propag aiup from
snch conneXlos2 Every farmer knows the efTec,
crossing in and in has ca,r, sheep, &c; but we
seem tn traye ed he
most noble and usrl Of animals, by tn violation of the
law Of nature, which furbiis ncesiuous connexions:
hat czrres with its corrective, IN the SLOW but
CERTAIN destruction Of the species. Such being the con-
sequence Of DOR sys,eD 1t would seem strange that
we cOutinue 10 pursue it-Many attempts have been
made it-mzny fine horses have been imported
from EngfaDd hot they have furnished no remedy for
One evh-the English aud American race horse being
of the same stock. The difficulty aud enormous ex.
perSe Of obtaining tho bo0ded Arabian has nre.
vented Che importation OF many IF them into thu.
cohnty Il ia affirmed by writer's and travellers that
those Of the sacred blood, las they caDed are val
ned from 500 to SGU0 pounds sieriing-they are cno
sidered cnrecrated breel, designed 70 the us, of
the Prophet and his descendants; and great preiu
dice exists to selling them at all Tap6n, his Sport
ing Dictionary published in 1893, vol /, page a. re
marks-"tirat they are mostly consigned as presents
tn his Majesty sDme Of the Royal Family and their
pedigree Of their blood rs recorded with As much care
and tenaeity, as the genealogy Of the moa ancien,
English Nobility" Bnt, IL cannot bo necessary TO en-
logic this tchless breed of horses. to recommend
them to the American sportsman; he must know iha,
IT was oy crossing on this stock that the sluggish and
coM -bloodcd horse Of England, was converted into
the beautiful and melted II is only me-
cessary to satisfy him that the WINTER ARABIAN
Is one OF true sock-so many attempts have been
made to impose on public credulity by palminr nm
them spurious horses tor the Arabian that the evidence
in the true stock should be satisfactory and conclusive
The Winter Arabian was captured during the late war
Of 1914 then year Old by the pryaieer Grannns
Of Barn ore, board the brig Doris his Britannia
Hsjesty's Transport 30. $50, on her passage from
senega'n Africa, to Portsmouth in England; and,was
King of England tsee Niles' Weekly i,eg1s,er, vol
vii. page 49,
Winter Arabian was sold par OF the cargo of
the captured brig, and was purchased by Elisha j
Winter Esq then a member Of Congress from The
State Of New York; after the Purchase, nc through
highly respectable mercantile house in New York
caused an inquiry 30 be made of Colonel Broornfeld
and Mr. Douglas, superntcndants Of His Moesty's
stud at Hampton Court, by whom lie was informed
that full-bIooded Arabian shipped in the brig
eorls, from Senegal for his Majesty ond there was