Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-04-25
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w virginia, and will be let TO mares at $50 the sea.
son-one dollar to the groom. Good and extensive pas.
turage, divided and well enclosed, aud servants board,
gra"s. Al possible care 10 prevent accidents or escapes,
out no liability for either. Gentlemen may be assured
'hat IL care viii be taken Of mares with foals by their
sides, and they led, at twenty-five cents per day, and will
be Kept as much as possible to themselves, or with other
mares in their own situation. The season commenced the
LIST day of March and " n end the 4h dsy OF July. Mares
that missed last season, If accompanied by another, will
b e Put gratis; il not, will be charged halt price.
HEDGFoRp was got by the great racer and stallion in
England, tiho Da Puia-Yes, Flho Dd Futa-,he hes,
race horse oil his day, and is still thought, in the North of
England TO be equal 10 the grea, Eclipse himself. Fllho,
10y nspns%aIu' ,he best son ct Sir Peter TeaEle,. the best
son OF the never.besten Highayer, the hest son of Herod,
se pest SON OF Tartar, the best son oil Pa tner, Sc, &c.
See English Stud Book.
Miss Craigie, the dam of Hedgforl and BIRMINGHAM.
iuli brothers, was got by the celebrated OryilI, who co.
vered at 90 gnineas a mare, and 2 guineas to the groom
ner dam, Marchioness, by Lurcber-her grandain Miss
Sogden 10y Phenomenon, &C., &c.-See american Turf
Register, page 262, volume 1. IL ever a horse had better
blood richer pedigree would love gentlemen 10 mark
mat horse to me- that ] too might profit by him. Aud we,
mere are those who endeavored TO despoil him, or rather
insldlously mislead the public Judgment. See A. r. r.
vol 4th, pages 327, 5i3, 5l6:-and Tor answer to which,
i must refer You 10 Hedgf ri's present years hand bill
too long for insertion here. Any geniereao can obtain
one, on application by letter. | regret that this il te n
~ MODE iet me- TO bring this to The public eye.-And,
now a word OF Kindness TO Barimore-a frank, pointed
writer in the A. T. R.-whose opinions in some instances
nave accorded with my own. Yet, in some Oong apo)
we nave widely differed; and in his remarks i'm The Fee.
oruary NO. 81, most widely, as to several OF the late i'm
portd'ions. Its my puI pose here TO coniue MYSELF main.
~ to those on Hedgiord. Who is b.! May / venture to
throw my experience in the balance with, his. Come. let
us reason together. Let me tell him, { was horn under
the rooi OF him, who, from the year 1870. (at Leash lad
lent all his powers 10 the Improvement, of biood I'll -"
10 me year 1913, This deaih)-and /, myseifhave known.
from the ~yearI7S6, Miss Slamnerkin and iii her slock. I
nave been perfectly acquainted with, as his property, Bay
nlcnihohd, Porto, Shark, Dioned, Precipiiaie, = and Robin
Redbreast-all imported. knew Obscurity. Dare Devil
Bedford, Comorant, Darlington, Stirling. Citzen, Arch'
duke, hnow'ley, Sir Harry, and all The Imported horses,
100 numerous 10 Nance; and | sill believe, know a NOM.
lancer IRON one of the golden fleece, armed with whaI I
hah The vanity 10 think WAS experience; and seeing Mr.
1"cesohs anver'isement about Hedgiord and Auiocrat, |
"'ur 10 new YORK, and gave the horses several strict
examinations; and then, as now, avowed NV opinion de.
c'dehly IN favor OF Hedgford: he was cav, airy' Io,v and
scuVe' though a cripple, aud poor; the other not go: both
noIseso' a neigh'; and what ascendancy Auiocrat conld
have over him, according 10 your owl she " wing, | cam, see.
h", p,Er a. on INA, ba,'~ore has said Of Au,ocrst, may be
on' nan ms h"e; YET, claim Tor Hedstori, much more.
dpropo'! L hand Barimore to a tGiend. a iudge =,
my ieh-not an advocate for importation. He swear..
ny d" Tue powers above, the gentleman could never
nave seen tie borse--Exclaiins OH! he has missed hin,
W,uer III ever a man did miss "a horse in the WORLD
why, sir, thought him one Of the gayest. nre,nes,
ore handed horses ever saw in my Lille; with more
evidence OF blood about him. Mountains, indeed, Two
10 one against you, my Lord. Yes sir, and il Won carry
ont your principle Of small horse aud high form. we should
.u'" more th"n a thousand 10 one against you--a principle
'o pam Tor argument--a pigmy against a giant, &c. &c.
without reputation as a raceI!' 1 beg leave TO re-
NINA b"ilinore, that Hedgiord won about one third of his
longest rdces--was second in about another third and in
ue Others among many good horses, never disgraced him
Ell. lie ran more loohshly in a number OF short races,
thah any other horse ever did--in fact, ought never In
nave started IN but one race oil the whole humber. See
his hrst six races, for example.
HIS hrst race at Chester, May 5fh, 1928, two mile h.a,s
which he won at two heats, Qhe only race he should ever
have run in. although lie won his only ihree mile race u
lis next race, in four days after, the Paleptiue stakes of
D U sovereighs each, IA suhscfibers,D the owner of The SO.
cond horse 10 receive 100 soyereigns, to start al the Castle
pole and go once round. In this race he came in second
10 fi9,Non, giving him three pounds; both belonging to
MIR. Myuon, who won the whole prize. Pray. NV LORI.
Is not mere the clearast evidence OF both speed and bottom,
gwen ny the same colt, in the short space Of four DAYS
Could he be in order for both races And so of his next
'hree races, all once round and a distance, and he came in
second in all three, giving still higher evidences of great
speed. But his sixth race was at Nottingham, the very
beNi d'y oHcr running The above once round and a dis
lance which race was two aud a half miles OUT. U6 sub-
scTloersD which lie also won. Now, my Lord, here are
me SIX hrst races OF a colt: the first is TWO miles heats
me SKIN Is Two aud a hall miles, both of which he wine
ms 'our intermediate races are short ones, and he comes
~ second III all four, beating many fine col,s-and vet
" without reputation as a racer" Hedgford - l6 mr. ~
times first or second in his longest races. In EngIand. the
great anu hard-contesied race between an toniso and
diamond, lett the nation in doubts as to which was the
pest morse. SO III America. AT Newmarket, the hard
contested race between Wrangler and Sir Archy, lett us
IN doubts as TO which was the best horse. Wrangler died
young But time has proven, that Sir Arciy, although
beaten and second. ranks as second TO no horse now In
England, the two True Blues were brothers the one a
race horse' me other not. In breeding, the proposition
was eveTsed-the one never did. the other never failed TO
get racers. But il has been left TO modern times 10 disco.
yer, that n horse must win al his races, or lac is left " viii.
ont reputation as a rscer"-a doctrine long exploded bv
evident exPericnce-a doctrine, to which you, nor any
o'ber reuerting gentleman can submit upOe the sligbi.
est cast OF The eye, OH the manner in which character ia
nun'ed down, aud reputation" falsely pulled up now. "a
days.
Reputation, unstable, tickle dame,
Srarce hves an hour. OF that hour the same;
WIN fcs down bent, as is the nodding grass,
by every whiting wind, as oof tho plain il pass.
NY Lord adleu. JOHN G.. GOODE.
Petersburg, March 18th. O2-w,onbM -