Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-04-18
THE IMPORTED HORSE
Medgf0rsl.

The IMPORTED HORSE
Medgf0rtl,
NTiLL stand again, at my stable in Meek,ensurs
w Virginia, and will be let to mares at $50 the sea-
'on-one dollar to the groom. Good and extensive pas
urise' divided and well enclosed, and servants board
sras All possible Gore 10 prevent accidents or cscapes
out no liability for either Gentlemen may be assu,eJ
ma, ell care will be taken Of with Ioals BY their
sues and they fed at twenty five cents per sy aud ~
be kept as much possible themselves or with o,her
mai es in their situation The season ,hs
LIST day oil March and will end the 4h day OF July Mares
na' missed last season, IL accompanied by another will
De pun gtais; II MOI, will he charged halt price
, hEDGfoRD wasgo by the great racer and stallion In
England filho Ds Pa'a- Yes Fiho Da Puta-the best
race horse oi his day, and is sli thought la the North of
England, to be equal TO the great Eclipse himself FIbo
Is by HsPhazd the hes, OF Sir Peter Teaze the
son OF the neverLeacn Iiignyer the best SON Of UroJ
VIC ocs sou oi iot'ar, The best vi Partner Sc s.
See English Stud Book '' ~
Miss Craigie, the dam OF Hedgord and Birmingham.
oii brobers was go, by the celebrated Orvil who co
veieu at on gnneas mare, and guneas to The groom
ner dam, MIrchioness, by Lurchur-her YranJsm Nils.
Sosceh hy Phenonienon, &c., &c.-See American Turf
hegs'er page 2o2, volume 1. 10 ever horse had better
richer pedgree-l would love gentlemen to m,r
ha' horse 10 me-, tina, too might profit y him Aud y,,
e are 'nose who endeavoed 10 d-spoii him. or rather
ns''oisiy instead the public Judgment See A. n II
vol 4th, pages 327 5i3, 5i6:-and Tor answer n ,,hh
maS' refer you to Hedgrds present years hand hill
40 'o"s iot i"seruon here Any gentleman eau obtain
que, on application by letter. regret that this is the on
y mode lett me- TO bring this to the public cye-AnJ
now wcrd oil kindness TO Barimo,e-a frank poineJ
writer In the "a T. R.-whose opinions in some
have accorded with my own. Yet in some liz aS
We have widely differed; and in his remarks in the E!
oruay NO 81 most widely, 10 several OF the late inn
p'a"ons. IRIS my purpose here conioe myself main
y 10 those on Hodsiorl. Who is BIZ NAV i ys,,nrs -,
throw my experience in the balance with his, Gene 10,
a. reason together Let me tell him. was born under
we fooi oil INN, who from the year ITO (ai casN hal
en all his powers TO the Improvement of blood .,ock ,
10 the year 1873 This tealh)-aud l. mysefbaye tnnr
o ,e year 1855 Miss Siammerkin and Ill her stock
oeen perfectly acquainted wi his p,oper,v nv
hicimond, Porto, Shark, Domed Precpitste lam, }; h;1
seIorl'st-"h imported knew ObscuIi,y Dare Devil
FL, nlrlin
huRe, hnowsiey, Sir Harry, aud ali the imnored ,n
TOO numerous TO name; and sill believe know ,o
, , IRON one OF The golden fleece, with what
nau 'ne vanity TO think was experience; and seeing Nj
'"rnSon advertisement about II eds ford aud Au,ocra,
Veh'urcd TO New York. and gave the horses ,;c
i,.I, -; anu men, as now, avowed my opinion de
uey IN 'avor oil iiegford: lac CAV airy LOFTY and
acuvr though cripple, aud poor; the other no, so: both
oses OIL height; and what asrendancy Auocra, could
nave over num- according 10 your own she wing ca, sos.
although all that Barmore has said Of Am,oc, '.
o"t hat his due: yet, claim for Hedgord much moro
"Pr9po' hand Barimorc to a iienJ a iudge n,
my ieit--not an advocate for importation w.. ,Ya
by all the powers above, the gentleman roniL noa
nave seen tie horse--Excaims oh! he has missed h;
w 'iah ever man did miss horse in the world
WY SIR, thought him Of the gay.s, nrc,,;a,
lore handed horses saw in my lite. vii, 80
evidence oil blood about him. Mountains jn,ecLi IT,
I,e YOU NY Lord Yes sir, and il you carry
our Your principle OF small horse high form sonI
'" more than thousand TO ,ins you--a principle
P W! Ior arguheh--a pismy against gilnt SC Sc
- without reputation a raceIr' 1 bcS Ie,yo - s
mind Barimore that liegior,i won a6ou, one ,Ir c ~;
longest rdces--was second in about another third and in
'he Others among many good horses ts@r,red him.
sell lie ran more iooishly in number OF Short raccs
man any other horse ever didin fact, ought never to
nave started in but one OF the whole number $40
his first six races for example ''
His frs, race Chester Nav 9Th 1929 t,vo mill, 49,
winch he won at two heats (le ONLY race he should
nave run IN, although he his only three mile go
s race IN Tour days after, the Pentne stakes of
~ sosc'eehs eac ia suhscri6crs the owner Of the So
coma horse TO receive 100 sovercgns TO start al The Cae
poe ana go once round In this he came i'm second
NJ. giving him three pounds; both belonging TO
orr W yuoh, VINO won The whole prize. Pray nv Lord
not mere the clcares evidence OF both speed and boo
% Wy is same colt III the short space of four DAYS
Conid lie be IN order for both races? nd so oC liz ~
three races, all round and distance AMI b AZ
second IN all three, giving still higher evidences of rca
Speeo; bu MS sixth rare was at Nottingham the verv
neA' uay AFTER running the above once round and dis
scribeTs,) which he also won. Now my Lord haro .n
we SIX hrS' races OF colt: the first ia two miles heats
elNh IS TWO and half miles, both Of which he wins
ms ionr intermediate short ones and he come,
I" second 10 all iour, beating many fine cos-and vet
without reputation racer Hedgford was I6 mr. re
mes hrst or second in his longest races In ENGLAND thu
great ana hard contested between uambetonio All
Dianohd' lett the nation in doubts to which was the
oEs. morse. 30 IN America. At Newmarket the hard
contested race between Wrauger and Sir Arcbx IiI w
IN doubts as TO which the best horse Wranger J;.J
yong' b"' time has proven, that Sir Archy although
ana second, ranks as second horse now In
Eagiand, the two True Blues were brohers ,ho ono
race morse, the other not In breeding the proposition
was revcrsed-,he never did the o,cr nersr f;tJ 80
get racers. But il has been left TO modern ,imes 90 H.
Ver That horse must win all his races or he is I "
ou r.pu'aon as racer-a doctrine long exploded by
evident eXperieDce-a doctrine, to which vo, nor 80
oner reheciing gentleman can submit upon the slight
es' cast OF the eye, the manner in which cbarac,er
days r Wy "o"'a'
K"putntion unstable, tickle dame,
ScaIcn iives an hour that he same:
WIN lace down bent, = Is nodIiny
ny every whiihing wind, as DER the plain it pass
My Lord, adieu Holm n rOOnr
'e' MARC" iith. lO3--wt2othMay
mas been stated IL the A. r r. that Prcepato died on hi,