Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-03-15
March Is.
RI0EeG0pI.

ENHIS borough bred Horse will stand the present sea
IL son, which will expire on the first Of July next, al
inc stables oil the hLst subscriber, one mile below Dun.
Kirk, and at King & Queen Court The terms are
twenty dollars the season. discharged by the payment Of
htteen dollars within the season. and twenty-five dollars t
insure a mare with foal. Twelve dollars the leap, TO be
paid when the service is rendered, and fifty cents cash 10
the groom in every case. Parting from the mare will for
felt the insurance. Mares left with the horse will be fed
with grain, il required, at 25 cents per day. Excellent
AMI extensive pastures, well enclosed and we'll watered,
furnished gratis. Great care will be taken to avoid acct.
dents or escapes, but we will not be responsible for either.
We have put him at this reduced price, not because he is
inferior to any horse whatever. but TO enable the farmers
generally, as we'll as others, 10 breed from him.
blakeford is a beautiful dark chestnut, l6 hands high, OF
great bone and muscular strength, and in point of blood,
symmetry and action, is unsurpassed. He was foaled in
May 1926, is a sure ioaI-getter, and his colts are large and
handsome. A very large majority Of his progenitors were
celebrated on the Turf, in all distances, particularly in
four mile heats. BY injudicious training when very young
ne sustained an injury in his right hind ANGLE, and was
taken from the Turf He was a colt of high promise, and
remarkable for his speed.
PEDIGREE-Blakeiord was gotby Gov. Rob. wrigh's
celebrated SilUer Heels; his dam Selma. by Col. Tavioe's
Top Gsllaui g.dAm Lady Jack Bull, by Col. Tayloe's i'm
p2rtse Gabriel; & s. dam Active, by Chatham; p. z. q. dam
A. So ~ 0oyernor Eden's imported slim; z 2 2.
&, {. & 1t,m Thistle. ~ asnIse@@s %iG@aSG6Fted Dove; g &.
< &. &. 2. dam Stella, by Gov. Sharpe's imported Ojhello;
his z. e. Z. &. &. G. G. dam, was Col. Tasker's celebrated
imported mare Seim, by the GodOlphin arabian. Sill
yer Heels was got by Gov. ogle's famous horse Oscar, his
dam Pandora, by Col. Tayloe's Grey >Diomed; e. dam by
Halls Union, also the dam of Edeln's celebrated race
mare F3orettdj 6. G. dam by Leonidas; &. & &. dam by i'm
ported Othel'o; &. G. e. e. dam by Gorge's imported Juni-
per; & GIG. 6. g. dam by Morton's imported Traveller; his
g. &. g. g. e. e. dam, was the imported mare Selma by
the Godolphin. arabian. Oscar was got by the imported
Gabriel, (also sire Of Post Boy aud Harle quin) his dam
was Col. Tayloe's Vixen, by imported Medley; e. dam
was Col. Tay'oe's Penelope, by Old Yorick; e. e. dam by
imported Rdnter; g. e. &. dam, by imported Gift, who was
half brother to the famous old Cub Mare, from when de-
scended Rather, Sumpter, Childers and Flirtlia.
CERTIFICATE
Queen inns County, Nd Dec. 20, 1892.
We do hereby certify, that DIR. Robert wrights horse
Blakeford stood in This county in the spring OF 1881, and
that he is a sure al-getter, and his colts highly approved
of, being both large and handsome.
ROE. J. II. CARSON,
JAMES w. HARRIS
]. n. SPENCER,
CLINTON WRIGHT,
II. e. TILGHNAN,
HUGH CAMPBELL,
March Is. fI02-w4w1 VIM. p. COURTNEY.