Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-05-02
Ill IMPORTED HORSE
HedgGOrd.

0TILL stand again. at my stable In Meeklsnbure.
w virginia, and will be let to mares at 500 the sea-
turage, divided and well enclosed, and servants board.
graus. All possible care 10 prevent accidents or escapes.
but no liability Tor either. Gentlemen may be assured
that oil care will be taken Of mares with foals BY their
sides. and they fed, at twenty. 6vo cents perday, aud will
be kept as much as possible to themselves. or With other
mares in their own situation. The season commenced The
Isl. day Of March and will end the 4th day OF July. Mares
that missed last season, if accompanied by another, viii
be put gratis; II not, will be charged halt p,ice.
HEpGfoRD was got by the great racer and stallion in
Englsnd, Filho Da Yes. Filho Da Puta-the best
race horse Of his day, and il still thought. in the North of
England. to be equal to the great Eclipse himself. F,lho.
Is by Harhazard, the best son OF Sir Peter Teazle. the best
son OF ue never.besten highnyer. the best son oil H.rod,
the best son OF Tartar. the best son oil Partner, &c., sc.
See English Stud Book.
Miss Craigie, the dam OF Hedgford and BIRMINGHAM.
full brothers, was got by the celebrated orviu, who CO..
vered at 90 guiness a mare, aud 2 guiness TO the groom
her dam, Msrchioness, by Lurciier-her grandsm Miss
Cogden by Phenomenon, &C., &c.-See american Turf
Register, page 262, volume 4. II ever q horse had better
biood--aiIcher pedigree-l would love gentlemen 10 mark
that horse to me, that l too might prolific him. Aud vet
there are those who endeavored 10 ,iespoil him, or rather
insidiously inislead the public Judgment. See A. T.. r..
vol. 4.h, pages 327, 6l3, 6i6:-and for answer to which.
l must refer You to Hedgford's present years hand BILL.
TOO long for insertion here. Any gentleman can obtain
one on application by letter. l regret that this 10 the ON.
y m0ae .st me to bring thi, to the public eye.-And.
now q word OF Kindness to Barimore-a frauk, pointed
writer in the A. I. R.-wiose opinions in some instance
nave accorded with my own. Yet, in some 0ong ayo)
we have widely differed; aud in his remarks In The Fe.
oruary No. 81, most widely, as 10 several Of the late i'm.
portaiions. Its my purpose here to confme myself main.
Y to those on Hedgtord. Who is b. May Iven,ure to
throw my experience in the balance wi,h his? Come let
US reason together. Let me tell him, 1 was born under
the fooi OF him, who, IRON the year ITO, Cat Ieast) had
len, al MS powers to the improvement Of blood stock, up
10 the year 1878, Qis deaih)--and /, myseifhave known.
from the year l7S6, Miss Slammerkin and oil her stock.
have been perfectly acquainted with, as his property, Bay
Richmond, Porto. Shark, Diomed, Precipitaie. . and Robi,,
Kedbreast-nii imported. 1 knew Obscu,ity. Dare Devil
Bedford. Conoranl, Darlington, Stirling, Cilizcn, Arch.
auke, Anowsiey' Sir Harry, and all the imported horses,
100 numerous 10 uamp. and 1 ein hni;a,o \
tanner from one Of the golden fleece, armed with wha, 7
nd the vanity To- think was experience; aud seeing Mr..
1sekson,s advertisement abou, hedgtord aud Autocrat. 1
Ven'urcd TO New York, and gave the horses several strict
examinations; and then, as now, avowed inv opinion de.
cidedly IN iavor oil Hedgford: he was gay, airy, lofty aud
active, though a cripple, and poor; The other no, So. 10th
horses oil a height; and what ascendancy Autocra, could
have over him, according TO your own she wing. I can't see:
aNlheugn all that barimore has said Of Auiocrat, may he
but hall his due: yet, l claim Tor Hedgtorl. much more
dPropos! l hand Barimore to a iiend. a iudgc AZ
my leit-not an advocate for importation. He swear.
py all The powers aboye, the gentleman could nev,r
have seen the horse-Exclaim oil! he has missed h m
wider than ever a man did miss a horse in the worId.--
why, sir, l thought him one OF the gayesI, pret,i- {
evidence OF blood about him. Mountains, indeed Two
10 one against you, my Lord. Yes sir, aud IL you carry
out your principle OF small horse and high form, we should
turn more than a thousand TO one against you-a principle
TOO PLAIN Tor arguments pigmy against a giant, SC. SC.
!" without reputation as a racer!" beg leave to no.
mind barimore, that Hedgford won about one.third Of his
longest races--was secoud in about another third aud in
The others, among many good horses, never disgraced him
sell. he r,n more iooishIy in a number OF short races,
than any other horse ever did--in fact, ought never to
have started in bat one race OF the whole number. See
his first six races, for example.
HIS FIRST race at Chester, May 9th, 1928, two nile heats.
which he won at two heats, (hc only race ne should ever
have run in, although he won his only three mile racel-
Ills next race, in four days after, the Pslentine stakes. of
oo sovereigns each, IA subscribers the owner of The q
conu morse 10 receive 100 sovereigns, to stsrt at the Castle
pole and 20 once round. In this race he came i'm second
to Hols'on, giving him three pounds; both belonging TO
Mr.. Myton, who won the whole prize. Pray, my Lord.
is not here the clearsst evidence OF both speed and bottom
gwen by the same colt. in the short space OF four days
Iou'd ne De IN order Tor both races! And SO OF his next
three races, all once round and a distance, and he came in
second III all three, giving still higher evidences of great
sPeeh. But his sixth race was at Nottingham, the very
next day alter running the above once round and a dis
lance which race was two aud q half miles out, ZIG SUBJ
scrbers) which he also won. Now, nv Lord. here
the six first races Of a colt: the first is two ,ailes heats.
the sixth is two aad a half miles, both of which he win
His iour intermediate races are short ones. and he comes
:" !" a." iour' beating many fine cotis-and yet
2" without reputation as a racer" Heigford was I6 or IL
times hrst or second in his longest races. In ENGLAND. the
great ana hard-contesied race between Hambleionian and
diamond, iet the nation in doubts as 10 whici, was the
best horse. So in America. At Newmarket tt,e hard.
contested race between Wrangler and Sir Archy, lett us
IN doubts as 10 which was the best horse. Wranplcr died
young. But time has proven, that Sir Arciy, although
beaten and second. ranks as second 10 40 horse now. In
England, the two True Blues were brothers ttc n q
race horse, the other not. In breeding, the proposition
was resersed-ihe one never did, the other never failed 10
get racers. But a has been LETT 10 ,nodern times 10 Disco
yer, mat a horse must win all his races, or he is left I" with.
out reputation as a racer"--a doctrine long exploded bv
evident experiences doctrine, to which YOU, nor any
Other rejecting gentleman can submit upon the slight
est cast OF The eye, on the manner in which character is
hunted down, and g reputation" falsely pulled up nova.
days.
Reputation, unstable, tickle dame,
scarce lives an hour, or that hour tho sarse;
With face down bent, as is the noiJing grass,
by every whiting wind, as DER tho plain IL sass.
MY Lord, adieu. JOHN c. GOODE.
petersburg, M arch llth. I03--wt20thMA