Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-12

VIII stand again AZ my stable the
&~yAy Of brunswick, about hfty.6ve miles
0H South Of Richmond. and thirty. three
South OF Petersburg-hfteen north east
Of Brunswick Courthouse. Lavrcneevilic. and eight
teen northwest OF Belield and be let to mares at
thirty Dollars the to be discharged by the pay
ment uf twenty Dollars any time during the season
ten Dollars the leap and fifty dollars the insurance,
and ore Dollar in every case to the groom. The
son will commence the 18th of February, and term.
nate the 10th OF ja.y. Good passr-.ge for mares
gr..As-nnd those who ~ish, can have them well fed
and strictly attended to at reasonable price; but
responsibility for escapes or accidents.
Tho subscriber congrutuatcs the breeders Of fine
horses, the opportunity offered them Of i'm
provi.g their etock, by q valuable cross That The
American and English horse has greatly deter
orsted in the last eighty years. is fact that must be
conceded by all intelligent and candid spor,smcn; and
that, that deterioration has been produced by the
practice OF breeding IN and an, as s called. THAT
Is, from the same s,oek it is presumed will also be
admitted. AT or the most digent inquiry and care
full investigation, believe the successful
in Virginia sre pursucdcd that an OCCASIONAL re-
sort TO the originu stock OF oriental horses
cessary to preserve an improved breed, it was in
the first instance to obtain IT. aud far from the
direct not producing the finest animals Dol TOR
strength. speed and beauty. it rs capable of proof
and the history of the English horse will demon.
stratc il, that the best and breeders England
ever had, were the and daughters, and at far
thes,, the grand sons and grand daughters Of the
Arabian: and that they have deprecated In proper
ton as they were removed from these points. The
first evidence would offer, in support Of the
ton is,the established weights on the EnglisHcourse
at 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 yenrs. They breeding extensively from
oriental horses, including Borbs and Turks During
that Cntro perOd, their horses continued improve
in speed and bottom, while the weights were greatly
;nHeased aged horses then carried / or pounds and
w'S+ 81 at ran four miles, from seven minutes twenty
sec',-e. TO seven mnrtes fifty seconds; from That
time say from 1870 to 1875 TO The days of Eclipse,
they discontinued the breeding from the Arub.an,
and their weights have been gradually decreasing:
tracks TO 10 pounds; and on none, believe
are they higher than 1873 pounds; yet there Is nu,
now in England or America racer that can run the
distance in the same time in which il was formerly
done with their heavy weights. The next evidence
49, the horses themselves barley Arabian got Fly
ing Childers who Is sold tn have run four miles in
s,x minutes and forty seconds Flying Childers got
many fno racers; but none that equalled himself
Godolphin Arabian got the dam of Eclipse, but
Eclipse never got his own equal, though he got many
fine racers-v,Z Regulus, Volunteer, &c. Rrou,is
got many champions Of the turf but neither him nor
his progeny produced another Regulcs. Yertumnus
cessfui on the turf himself sire. Volunteer 20,
Spread Eagle, Sterling, &c. but Sterling anil Spread
Eagle got their equal, much less the equal
of Volunteer Janus and Fearnought were got py 10.
dolphin Arabian During the days Of those horses yir
gmia vas famed for fine saddle horses a. well as
distinS uished now, It is almost proverbal tina,
the blood horse Of Virginia rarely produces a fine
saddle horse: nor have we, I believe, a single
turf horse capable OF running four miles with
l63 pounds (he former weights) in good time
Our best races made by young horses Carving
light weights; and it is a fact and which is wen
worthy the consideration OF raisers that with the pre-
sent light weights many Of first horses break down
in training, and very few remain longer thsn two Years
on the tTf Their bone, sinew, and muscle are not in
proportion to their size and weigh-and their es of
ten give way in training exercise. is believed there
is not now in the United States single hryh,blooted
horse that has descended from the same stock viz.
the Godophin Arabian and generally speaking bo,hby
dam and sire Con strong, active, healthy and yipor-
ors horse be reasonably expected by propagating from
such come xionsl Every farmer knows the effect
crossing in and in has cattle, sheep, &c. bat we
seem not p lrave anticipated the consequence to the
noble and usrnl Of anuais, by tn violation of the
faw Of naturr, which ftnbds incesuous connexions.
hat carries with it's Corrective in the slow but
certain destruction Of the species Such being the con-
sequence Of system, it would seem strange that
coutinue to pursuo it-Many attempts have been
made ter t-many fine horses have beef imported
from England, hut they have furnished remedy for
the evll-the English and American race horse being
Of the came stock. The difficulty and enormous ex.
pere of obtaining the .blocded Araban has pre-
vented the importation Of many of them into this
country. is affirmed by writer's and trave that
those of the sacred blood as they are oaed are val
ued from 500 to 5000 pounds sierling-,hey are coo
sidered cousecrated breed designed for the use Of
the Prophet and his descendants and great preji-
dice exists to selling them at all TapEn in his Sport
ing Dictionary published in 1913, vol. l. page AZ re
marks-'thst they are mostly consigned as presents
To his Anjesty or some OF the Royal Family and their
pedigree Of their blood is recorded with as much
aud tenacty, as the gerealogy Of the most ancien,
English Nobility But, il cannot be necessary TO eli.
log,ze this matcrss breed Of horses to recommen nd
them To tie American sportsman; he must know hs,
it by crossing this stock that the sluggish and
cohj-biooded horse OF England, wss converted in;o
the beautiful and high-meted courser. II is only ne
| cesssry to satisfy him that the WINTER ARABIAN
Is one of true slock-so many attempts have been
| ma n Tn nn nm nh fr nl,,l,,,
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 wa,
Of 1914, then one year DID, by the prvsteer Cramps
Of BsItin ore, board the brig Doris his britannia
Msjesiy's Transport, No. $50, her passage from
Senegal in Africa to Portsmouth in England; and was
intended as present for the then Prince Regent late
King Of England. iSee Niles Weekly REGISTER, vol
| vii. page 16)
Winter Arabian was sold as part of the cargo o.
The captured brig, and was purchased by Elisha J
Winter Eco. then q member Of Congress from the
State Of New York after the purchase, he through
highly respectable mercantile house in New York