Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-03-23
JANUS, GASCOIGNE AND rim


thorough shaped Stations.
VUNHE noted and very superior horse JANUS has
OF the blood of old JANUS (his o. great
grandsire) than any other horse living and his action
supasses that OF any other animal OF his species that
the writer Of this advertisement saw, his dam
FRENZY only excepted. Through her he has close
of old EpL and old FEARNoUGHr, well OF IA
NUS and from his grand nheri;s the blood of old
MARK ANTHONY, JOLLY ROGER, and the imported
mare BoNNy LASS, with another cross OF JANUs--and
through his great grand dar he derives his descent from
MoRroN's TRAVELLER and JANUS. lie is ten years
old
JANUS was trained by Vim. r. johnson, Esquire, TO
whom reference may be had Cor the character of the
horse lie won several tmcsamong others at Tree Hill,
when Gen. La Fayette thercbu altho' real racer,
being beat when he had heat, by con,ending each
heat with fresh horse He beat the far-famed HENRY,
competitor of EeLipsE, the two first heats of ve of
one mile EACH the best three in five; and could he have
been kept back, TO throw away heat il is believed
that he would have the Such the opinion
(among others of that model of the Old Virginia Planter
and Sportsman, the late EDMUND IRBY, Esquirc.l But
in this, and in other instances his ugovcrnabe tenn
per caused his defeat lie is without bemsh The pub
lie arc referred Tor his character stallion the Rev.
Robert Hurt of Halifax, who kept him seasons and
TO Mr. Cardwe lnn-keepcr at Charlotte c. H. who kcp,
him last and TO all who have bred from him. MIR
kandophs two best ioals (l Elbow JACKET and PUSH
PM dropped in his extensive stud last year. were both
got by Janus; the first of Young Frenzy and the last
out OF sister ROANOKE. For the character of
Janus, the public is referred Mr. James c. Dickinson of
Louisa, who kept him the last that he was farmcd
out [lS301
GROOM; FORTY DOLLARS the LEAF, TO be paid at the
STABLE door, before The is led a,cay; and ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS INSURANCE.; the money TO be paid
when the mare is covered and 10 be refunded in tho
marc shall not prove in foal provided the shall have
been ry treated and parted from by lie insurer with
in that time. Mares that slip their oals from i'll treatment
disease accident entitled TO the insurance
money ANY mare not proving in foal shall be covered
next season. gratis by Janus Gascoigne, the option
the proprietor The winner breeder OF winner oil plate
OF not less value than five hundred dollars shall also be
covered gratis The price Of the may be dis
charged by the payment OF forty dollars before the expra
uon thcrco II VIII commence athe date hereof Valen-
tines Day, and terminate on the first day of July.
The following very imperfect of his perfoman-
ces as was furnished by Mr. Arthur Taylor, who
trained and ran him. under the direction. of William r.
Johnson, ESQ.,
Performance Of Janus on The TmJ-Tho spring he
was years old, he trained and in sweepstakes
at Lawrencevic, brunswick c. Ii mile heats, which
race he at three heats: three stared Mr. Fields
mare Phlis, 2nd Captain Harrison's Fillcy.
The autumn that he three, he trained and run
at Jeters in Holloway county, mile heats, the best
In that race there three started viz: Sir Henry
Mr. Harcs mare Roseuc, and Janus. The first and Sc
Henry, Is inches the fourth heat Janus did contend
Tor, and was beaten the fifth by Henry about clear ia
lengthl After that race he went on to Tree Hill Rich
mond and run in sweepstake, two mile heats, which
race he with great at two heats, beating Mr..
fIarrson's Bursta and Mr.. Selden's Filley.
The same autumn he the Jockey Club at Spring
Hill Moodys1two mile heats: four started; which race
he won with ease.
The spring he four, he at Lawrenceville two
beaten the second not far In this there four
heats and Janus commended for every heat and was not
beaten much the last heat by ARATUs ony three
feet
lie went on from thence to New market Tpetersburgl
and ran three mile heats, and was beaten by Nancy War
rem
The autumn that he four, he ran at New market
three mile heats, against Betsey Robertson BER-
TRAND, which race BErsEY ROBERTSON In that
race Janus got lame and has been trained since Tin
fact he started lame horse: He fell lame on his travel
from Tree Ill., where he had the honor TO contribute to
the entertainment of General La Fayec during his
ters absence abroad by winning the sweepstakes above
named His speed is incontesble, and he always
honesf-no doifi's or dro,cins or icing distancedl
The above statement, with the exception of one or two
verbal corrections and the part between brackets is
by Arthur Taylor, who trained him, the direction
oil VIM. k. Johnson, Esq.
PEDIGREE.--IIe was got by Sir Arcly; his dam
FRENZY by SANS CULoTrE (son of Celsr) out of a
thoroughbred Medley and Fearnougbt mare His grand
SHANDY mare, and she by Janus of mare imported
by Mr. Booth of Gloucester, who also imported Janus.
Trsam Shan(S got by MoRToN's TRAVELLER,
(Which was bred by Mr. Croits, and got by his famous
Partner,) his dam by Janus.
President got by CELER, (bcst son of Janus) his
dam by Mark Anlhony-[bcst son of our Partner who
pln Arabianl-AIark Anthony's dam was Septiua,
which was got by the famous imported horse OTHELLo,
or BLACK AND ALL BLACK, by CRAB, out OF MISS SLA-
MERKIN The dam OF SEPTIAIA MoLL BRAzEN,
by SPARK, which was given TO GOVERNOR Ogle by Lord
Baltimore, who received him as present from FREDE-
RICK, p Of WALES, father of the late KING GEORGE
81. His dam was Miss CoLvIL.
The grand dam of PRESIDENT was HARDIMAN's
BoNNY LASS by old JOLLY ROGER, out Of old BoSNY
LASS, an imported mare which descendant of the
Duke of Ancdster's BoNNY LASS by SNIP-LATrt--
EAsBY- SNAKE--GREY WILKES by HAUr-BoY
RINALDo also by Sir 4rchy and of the same age as
Janus; he loaled in 1921. His dam Miss RYLANp,
by GRAcCHUs-out OF DUETTE by StLvERTAIL "a
full bred son Of Clocklast)-his dam, Young Primrose
by Wormeleys King Hcrod (son of Bayors Fearnoupht
out of Braxton's Kitty Fisher her dam the noted mare
Primrose, the property of DR.. HAMILTON of MARY
LAND, well known TO the gentlemen of the Turf in that
Statc-She (Prmrose) by the imported horse Dow
(son OF young Cade himself capital Stallion got by old
Cade one OF the Godolpiin Arabians best sons)-Prim-
roses dam, STELLA, got by OTHELLo by Crab,
otherwise called Black & al Black; of the most ia
nous OF the English Stations, imported from Ireland by
GovERNoUR SHARP (having been purchased by an Irish
Gentleman of vast fortune and carried TO that Kingdom,
where he remained many years 1.-The grand dam of Pru-
Governour Taskers famous Selma by the Godo
phin Arabian out of which got by For and
dam OF Locust, Weasel, Daphne, SSc.-her dam by
ERs-MAKELEss-Ssterto Honeycomb--Punch
the Duke of Somerset's famous Bald Charlotte the best
of her day and grand dam TO Lord Ossorys famous
DORMANT (sre of GABRIEL which got Govr. Oge's
Oscar)
N. b. LADY BoL1NGBRoKE, which was the Dam Of
CELIA Of DEsDEMoNA Chat at years old, ran so hard
four mile heat with Tayoes famous Lcviathan) of
LAvfNIA Chat the great stakes Fredericksburg i'm
1900 of Virginia by DARE DEVIL, and of Sclden's
WRANGLER that beat SIR ARcHY; and that capital lit
ont of Primrose, mentioned in the Pedigree Of Duete and
Svera This fact is worthy of the notice Of Sportsrnon
every where.
Rinaldo is ten years old-he will cover at S25
payable by fifteen within the season, Sl2 the leap
and $50 insurance TO be paid and returned the same