Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-03-03
JANUS. GASCOIGNE Ann RIM


thorough shaped stations.
YHNHE noted and very superior horse JANUS has
- more OF the blood OF old JANUS This q. great
grandsire) than any other horse living and his action
supasscs 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 cross
of old EDLEY and old FEARNouoHr as well MS of IA
NUS, and from his grand dam he nherts the blood of old
MARK ANTHONY, jolly ROGER, and the imported
mare BoNNY LASS, with another of JANUs-and
through his great grand DAM he derives his descent FROM
MoRroN's TRAVELLER and JANUS. He Is ten years
old.
JANUS was trained by VIM. II. johnson, Esquire, to
whom reference may be had for the character of the
horse. He won several mes-among others at Tree Hill
when Gen. La Fayette was there-but atho real racer
with great speed he was very unucky onesometimes
being beat, when he had heat, by conending each
heat with fresh horse. lie beat the iarfamed HENRY,
competitor OF ECLIPSE the two first heats of five, of
mile each, the best three in five; could he have
been kept back to throw away heat il is believed
that he would have won the [Such the opinion
among others of that model OF the Old Virginia Planter
and Sportsman, the late EDMUND IRpY, EsquircJ But
in this and some other instances his
per caused his defeat. He is without bemsh The pub
lie referred tor his character stallion 10 the REV
Robert Hurt OF Halifax, who kept him two seasons and
TO Mr. Cardwel, Inn keeper at Charlotte C. H who Kent
him last season, and to all who have bred from him. MIR
Randolphs two best foals N Elbow JACKET and PUSH
PtN) dropped in his extensive stud last year. were both
out OF own sister to ROANOKE For the character of
Janus, the public is referred Mr. James c. Dickinson of
Louisa, who kept him the last that he was farmed
out, [lS30.l
Janus at SIXTY DOLLARS and ONE DOLLAR to the
GRooM FORTY DOLLARS the LEAP to be paid at the
STABLE door, before the mare is led a,cdv: and ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS INSURANCE; the money to be paid
when the mare covered and TO be refunded i'm the
mare shall not prove in foal provided the shall have
been fairly treated and not parted from by the insurer with
in that time Mares that slip their oals from i'll treatment
accident not entitled TO the
money Any mare not proving in foal shall be covered
next season, gratis, by Janus Gascogne, the option of
the proprietor The winner or FEEDER of winner of plate
oil 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 expira
ton thereof 1t will commence at the date hereof Vacn
tines Day, and terminate on the first day of July.
The following very imperfect account of his performan
ces racer was furnished by Mr. Arthur Taylor, who
trained and ran him, under the direction of William r.
| Performance Of Janus the Tmt.-Thc spring he
was years old, he trained and in sweepstakes
at Lawrencevillc, brunswick c. III mile heats which
race he won at three heats: three stared Mr.. Fields
mare Phills. and Captain Harrison's Filley
The autumn that he was three, he trained and run
at Jeters, in Nooway county, mile heats the best i'm
In that race there were three started viz: Sir Henry
Mr. Hares mare Rosec, and Janus. The first and Sc
cond heat Janus won, and beaten the third by Sir
Henry Is nches the fourth heat Janus did not conte
for and was beaten the fifth by Henry about clear ia
ienghI After that race, he went to Tree Hill (Rc
inonD and run in sweepstake, two mile heats which
race he won with great two heats beating Mr.
Harrison's Burstall and Mr.. Selden's Filley
The same autumn, he won the Jockey Club at Spring
Hill loodysl two mile heats: four started which race
he with ease.
The spring he four, he at Lawrenccvile, two
mile heats; sarted Janus won the first heat and
beaten the second not far. In this there were four
heats and Janus conended for every heat and was not
beaten much the last heat by ARArUs only three
feet
! He from thence to New market TPetersburp1
and ran three mile heats, and beaten by Nancy War
rem
The autumn that he four, he ran at New market
three mile heats against Betsey Robertson and BER-
TRAND, which race BETsEy Robertson won. In that
race Janus got lame, and has not been trained since FIN
Fact he started lame horse: He fell lame on his travel
from Tree i where he had the honor contribute TO
the entertainment OF General La Fayete during his mas
absence he sabov
named His speed is incontesblc and he always ran
honeSt-no boiling or dyatcing or being 6isfnnced
The above statement with the exception of one or two
verbal corrections, and the part between brackets
by Arthur Taylor, who trained him, under the direction
OF VIM. II. johnson, Esq
PEDIGREE.-He was got by Sir Arcbv his dam
FRENZY by SANS CULoTTE (son of Celer) out of a
thoroughbre Medley and Fearnought mare. His grand
dam, old Uiaikia by President, out of TR1sTRAnt
SHANDY mare and she by Janus, of mare imported
by Mr. Booth of Gloucester, who also imported Janus.
Trstram Shandy was got by MoRToN's TRAVELLER,
(Which was bred by MIR. Crofs, and got by his famous
Parner,) his dam by Janus.
President was got by CELER, (best of Janus,) his
dam by Mark Anihony--best son of Partner, who
was by Traveller out of Selma raskes) by the Goo
phin Arabian MARK Auhony's dam was Septi,aa
which was got by the famous imported horse OrHELLo
or BLACK AND ALL BLACK, by CRAB out of MISS SIA
MERKIN. The dam of SEPTIMA was MoLL BRAzEN
by SPARK, which given Governour Oglc by Lord
Baltimore, who received him as present from FREDE-
RICK, p. OF WALES, father of the late KING GEORGE
3D. His dam was Miss CoLvIL.
The grand dam OF President HARDIMAN's
BoNNY LASS, by old JOLLY ROGER, out of old BoNNy
Lass, imported mare, which descendant of the
Duke OF Hncdsters BoNNY LASS, by SNIP-IATH-
EAsBY-SNAKE--GREY WILKES by HAUT-BoY.
RINALDo is also by Sir .4rchy and of the same age as
Janus; he was foaed in 1921. His dam Miss RYLANp
by GRAccHUs-out of DUErrE by SILvERTA1I. Ia
full bred of ClockfasD-his dam, Young Primrose
by Wormeey's King Herod (son of Bayor's Fearnought
out OF BraXons 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
Sate.-She (Prmrose) by the imported horse Dow
son oil young Cade, himself capital Stallion got by old
Cade, one OF the G0doLpn Arabian's best s)-Prm-
roses dam, STELLA, was got by OrHELLo by Crab
otherwise called Black al Black; one 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 10 that Kingdom
where he remained many years 1.-The grand dam of Prm-
rose was Governour Taskers famous Selma by the Godo-
phin Arabian, out of which got by old For and
was dam oil Locust, Weasel, Daphne, &c.-hey dam by
Rs-MAKELEss-Ssterto Honeycomb-Puncb
Kitty Fishers dam by the Cullen Arabian-out of
the Duke of Somersets famous Bald Charlotte the best
OF her day and grand dam Lord Ossorys famous
DORMANT (sire of GABRIEL which got Govr. Ogle's
Oscar)
N. b. LADY BoLINGBRoKE which was the Dam of
CELIA, OF DEsDEMoNA (that at years old, so hard
four mile heat with Tayoes famous Leviatan) of
Av1NIA hat the great stakes Fredericksburg i'm
1900 OF Virginia by DARE DEVIL, and of Selden's
WRANGLER that beat SIR ARCHY; and that capital lit
tie mare Sting, were out of the got by King Herod
out OF Primrose mentioned in the Pedigree of Ductc and
Svea This fact is worthy of the notice of Sportsrnen
every where.
Rinado is ten years old--he will cover at S25
payable by fifteen within the season, $l2 the leap,
and $50 insurance 10 be paid and the same
in aIr