Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-03-20
Capital Stations.
JANUS, GASCOIGNE q. RINALDt

| "''''""S" "uPeu St0UiOHS
HNliE noted and very superior horse JANUS, has
| IN more of the blood Of old JANUS (his Z. great
grahuSire) Than any other horse living, and his
lion surpaSSes that of other animal of his spc
cies that The writer of this advertisement ever
saw, his dam FRENzr only excepted. Through
her he has close of old MEDLEY and old
FEAENouGur, well us of JANUS, and from his
grand dam he inherits the blood of old MARK AS
TnoNY' JOLLY ROGER, and the imported mare Bon
NY LASS, With another cross of JANUs-and
through his great grand dam, he derives his de-
scent from MoRroN's TRAVELLER and JANUS. He
i 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 tmes-among
ol"crs ut Tree Hill, when Gen. La faycttc was
therc-bu aitho' real racer, with great speed, he
was very unucky onc-somctmcs being beat,
whcn he had won u heat, by contendirg zach heat
| with a fresh horse. He beat the far-famed HEN
RY, competitor of EcLIrsE, the two first heats out
oil hve' OF one mile each, the best three in five;
ana could he have been kept back, so as to throw
away heat, IL is believed that he would have won
the race. Such was the opinion (among .othcrs)
OF That model of the Old Virginia Planter
ana Sportsman, the late EDMUND IRBY, Esquire.
hut III Tins, and III some other instances, his un-
SoVernaDle temper caused his defeat. He is with
out blemish. The public are referred for his
character as stallion, to the Rev. Robert Hurt
OF Halifax, who kept him two seasons, and TO Mr..
Cardwcll, lnn-kccper at Charlotte c. H., who kept
hun last season, and 10 all who have bred from him.
Mr.. Rondolphs two best foals yellow JACKET
and PUsHriN) dropped in his extensive stud last
year, both got by Janus; the first out of
Young Frenzy, and the last of an own sister
to ROANOKE. For the character of Janus, the pub
lie is referred to Mr.. James c. Dickinson of Lou
lisa, who kept him the last that he farm
ed out, [lS30l
Janus at SIXTY DOLLARS and DOLLAR to the
GROOM; FORTY DOLLARS the LEAP, to be paid at the
STABLE door, before the IS led aouy; and ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS INSURANCE.; the money to he paid
when the mare is covered and TO be refunded in
case the mare shall not prove in foal: provided the
mare shall have been fairly treated and not parted
! from by the insurer within that time. Mares that
slip their foas from ill treatment, disease, acct
dent, not entitled TO recover the insurance money.
Any mare not proving in foal shall be covered
next season, gratis by Janus or Gascoignc, at the
| option of the proprietor. The winner breeder
of winner of plate of not less value than five
hundred dollars, shall also be covered gratis. The
| price OF the season may he discharged by the pay
ment of forty dollars before the expiration there
| Of 1t will commence at the date hereof, Valen-
tines Day, and terminate the first day of July.
The following very imperfect account OF his per-
tormanccs Il furnished by Mr.. Arthur
Taylor, who trained and him, under the di-
| rectlon of VIM. X Johnson, ESQ.,
| Pc,JorraRce Of Janus on the Tmf.-The spring
| he was ) years old, he was trained and ran in
! sweepstakcssat Lawrencevillc, Brunswick c. H.
mile heats. which race he at three heats: three
started; Mr.. Fields mare Phills, and Captain Har-
rison's Filley.
The autumn that he three, he was trained
and run at letters, in Nottoway county, mile heats,
the best in D. In that there three
started; viz Sir Henry, Mr.. Harcs mare Rosette,
and Janus. The first and second heat Janus won,
and was beaten the third by Sir Henry Is inches:
the fourth heat Janus did not contend for, and
was beaten the fifth by Henry, about clear a
iength After that race, he went to Tree Hill
| (kch'nond) and run in sweepstake, two mile
| heats, which race he with great two
heats, beating Mr. Harrisons Burstall and Mr. Sci.
denis Fillcy.
| The same autumn, he the Jockey Club at
Spring Hi! Moodysl two mile heats: four started;
which race he won with ease.
The spring he four, he at Lawrence
vile, two mile heats; four started: Janus the
Iirsl hedt and vas ,'enton thc second not far. In
this race there four keats ard Janus contend.
cd for every heat and was not beaten much the
| last heat by ARArUs [only two or three feet.
| He went on from thence to New Market Peters
burgl and three mile heats, and was beaten by
! Nancy Warren.
| The autumn that he was four, he ran at New
Market, three mile heats, against Bctsey Robert
son and BERTRAND, which race BETsEY Robertson
i won In that race Janus got lame, and has not
been trained since. In fact he started lame
| horse: He fell lame on his travel from Tree Hill
where he had the honor to contribute the en-
tertainment of General La Fuyette during his mas
! ters absence abroad, by winning the sweepstakes
| above named. His speed isincontestibe, and he
always run hOneSt-no bslting, or dra,ring or being
distdHced.
| The above statement. with the exception of one
| or two verbal corrections, and the part between
brackctS,[ is by Arthur Taylor who trained him un-
der the direction OF VIM. II. Johnson, Esq.
| PEDIGREE.-Hc got by Sir Archy; his dam
! FRENZY by SAYS CuIoTTE (son OF Celer) out of a
! thorough-b i cd Medley and Fearnought mare. His
grand dam, old Mnikin, by PreSident out of
IRIsTRAM SnANDY mare, and she by Janus, out of
a mare imported by Mr.. Booth of Gloucester, who
also imported Janus
Tristram Shandy was got by MoRToN's Travel
LER, (Which was bred by Mr.. Crofs, and got by
his famous Partner.) his dam by Janus.
President was got by CELER, (bcst son of Janus,)
his dam by Mark Anthony-Ibcst of our
Partner, who by Traveller, out of Selma
CIaskcr s. by the Godophn anl-Mark An
thongs dam was Septin'a which got by the
famous imported horse OTmELLo, BLACK AND
ALL BLACK, by CRAB, out of Miss SLAMERKIN.-
! The dam of SEPTIMA MOLL BRAzEN, by
SPARK, which was G wen to Governor Ogle by Lord
Baltimore, who received him present from
! FREDERIcK, p. of WALES, father of the late KING
| GEORGE Sd. His dam MISS CoIvII.
The grand dam of PRESIDENT HARDrMAN's
BoNNY Lass, by old jolly ROGER out of old Bon
NY LASS, an imported mare, which was descend
ant of the Duke of ARcdSicr'S BoNNY LASS by
| TH-EAsUy-SNAKE-GEEY WILKES by
! UAUT-EoY.
| RINALDo is also by Sir Archy, and of tho same
age Janus; nc fpaled i'll 1921. His dam
| Miss RYLANp, by GRAcCmus-out of DuErTE by
SILvERTAm "a full bred son of ClockfasD-his
dam, Young Primrose, by Wormley's King HcrUd
(son of Bayor's Fcarnought, out OF Braxtor's Kit
! ty Fisher her dam the noted mare PRIMROSE, the
properly of DR.. HAMLToN of MARyLAND, well
known to the gentlemen OF the Turf in that State.
SHE (Primrose) was by the imported horse Dove
(son of young Cadc, himself capital Stallion,
got by old Cgdc, OF the Godoiphn Arabian's
best sOns)-Prlmrosc's dam, STELLA, got by
OrnELLo by Crab otherwise called Black d. Al
BtGck; of the most famous of the English
stations, imported from Ireland by GoyERNoUR
SHARP (having been purchased by an Irish Gentle
man of vast fortune and carried to that Kingdom
where he remained many years.)-Thc grand dam
of Primrose GOVERNOR Taskcrs famous Sell