South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-04-29

won at fashionable courses, and generally
game"
Ertracts from authentic English Regis-
| tiers and other sources:
"Felt started this year times, ard WOE '
| important races, s of which We're Gold Cups,
/ and ran second in the 8th race, being beat BY
head, and beating the winner three or four
hmea on other occasions. He won in cups
and stakes $4,000, and lost in all his racing
career only four times. A most extraordina-
! ~ and splendid performance, especially when
it's considered that be frequently carried hea-
| Wy extra weight
The following strong evidence of his high
character. is taken from the Sporting Maya
zine for 1880:
'Having this year recruited his stable with
Lord Worcester's Felt, his Lordship has been
gallant winner-having with this horse car.
ried off both the great Tradesmen's Cups at
Chester and Liverpool and Cup or two
elsewhere. wish he had another nag or two
IN his stable like Felt" "That Felt is first
rate one, will not. fancy, be denied by any
one. PIP. 66, 256.-HE BEAT MORE rHAx
300 HORSES"
in ENGLAND, that it caused his sire, Hangar,
ireland to England, where he is now one of
their BEST and MOST POPULAR STATIONS.
The last season he had "a winning colts, that
won 80 races, and among them was Ellis per
haps the best colt of his year, who won the
great ST. Leger and many other races. Lam
gar is now covering mares by subscription at
about 1925, and making full seasons too.
Felt is very like his sire in form, action and
marks, but is a good bay, while Hangar il
chestnut, Hangar is descended from the same
stock as Priam, they being out of half sisters.
Felt covered last year about 100 mares at $50
! season and 500 to insure, among them the
celebrated Clara Fisher, Lady Lagrange, Gray
| Girl, imported Primula, imported Zillah, i'm
! ported Schemer, full sister to Ohio and many
| other fine mares.''
| | ask it to be borne in raind that the colts
of all the horses which we have imported that
| are old enough and have been tried fairly, are
winners, and many Of them capital winners in
| England, as Chateau Margaux, Luzborough
| and Flexible. l will also call the attention of
breeders to the running of the colts of such
| imported horses as have them old enough to
run, and they will see them winning all ever
the United States, under every disadvantage.
see that the only FLY of Chateau Margaux,
| that has run in America, beat at three heats
with very great ease Vertumnus by Eclipse,
and Hebe by Gonanna and Sally jenkins, over
the Charleston course, winning the two last
heats hard in hand in the excellent time of s
m. SO S. 3 m. 81 g. Can breeders ofthe blood
horse any longer doubt the superiority ofthe
thorough bred and first rate English horse,
| (whence we derive in the native stock all that
| is good, over the native Stallion? Let facts
speak, and Judgment direct them.
A. T. B. MERRITT.
twill be seen by the annexed terms, that
Dr. Merritt's liberality to this country has per-
mitted Felt to make season here much low
erpriced than he did last year in country
where he was Justly a favorite, land had crow
ded season. He win stand this season (which
has commenced and will end the Ist July1 at
my stable about IL miles east of Battle
town, in Clarke county, Virginia, at $50 the
leap, ifpaid when the service is performed.
if not, then it will be considered and charged
as the season; $50 the season, to be paid on
or before the I'd day of July next; and $75 in
surance, to be paid as soon as the mare is
known to be in foal [partng with the mare,
| or irregular attendance at the stand, forieits
Reinsurance i and so cents cash to the
groom, to be sent with the mare. Pasmrage
| can be furnished at so cents per week, but I
will not be accountable for accidents or es-
capes. Gentlemen wishing their mares fed
on grain will give written directions to that
| effect, as it will be PURCHASED and furnished
at the neighborhood prices.
PRIVILEGES GRANTED.
Any gentleman putting five mares of his
own will be entitled to the fifth mare gratis. A
company of gentlemen putting six mares,and
each one being accountable for ALL, will be
entitled to the sixth mare gratis. A mare ta-
king but once will be charged for the leap on
ly, [if paid at the time of the service,) unless
insured; fsecond time, at the TINE of the Sc
cond performance the owner may select either
season or Observation-Disclosures when they
send their mares, must write upon what terms
they will put them.-Mares not satisfied al
the expiration of the season will be permitted
to go on to him free of further charge for his
services UNLESS they have taken him but
once, then only sufficient to take them from
leap into season. until he leaves here, or some
time in the fall, Mares put LAST YEAR to
Byron or Flexible by the LEAP or SEASON land
failing, may be insured THIS year to Felt al
the season price, if their accounts shall have
been paid up by the first July, 1886. Mares
put THIS year by the leap Or season, and fail
ing, may be insured the next year TO any horse
then standing at my stable at the price of the
SEASON of such horse, if their accounts foI
THIS year shall be settled at the expiration Of
THIS season. No mare viii be entitled to
these privileges and advantages unless the
terms are strictly complied with.
JOSIAH VIM. WARE.
Berryville, Clarke county,
April l, 1887: