Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1838-03-28

exceedingly rich, .It..vrl IL
fashionable, and Ns@SsaAAA'
running pedigree. aud many other recon.
mendailoDs not often~met with, is a re
markedly rich aud handsome bay horse,l
near sixteen hands high, with fine bonel
and action, great power and substance,
excel lebt and clean limbs ,Aad an uncom
monty full CARCASS. 10 blood, pcrlorman.
ance and power as Race Horse, be has
no superior as cross Cor our American
mares, being Of family celebrated both
for It's speed and It's game. and combining
the hest biood Of all England as Prunel-
la, from whom are descended Waxy Pope
Wbalebone, Wbisker. aud host oil 9th
ers; Young Giantess, from whom came
Prism and Mnlcy, and from Selim Qhe
sire OF Sultan, now covering at $3.50 own
brother TO Reubens (the grand sire oil Va
marine,) and Castrel, (grand sire OF Queen
Of fIumps, only winner Of both Oaks ana
st. Leger.) and running back TO Match.
ems Grand dam
Gentlemen are invited TO examine Felt s
history in the American Tori Register.
vol. Z, page 293. from which the follow.
ing extracts are made:
FELT, foaled IN 1926, was by Lapgar
"a first rate runner oil distances, and pow
favori,e s,aIlon) bis dam, Steam. tdam
also OF Fang, who sold for near S25 GOO,
Famine. Flame. Flea. Foam and others)
own sister TO Starch by Waxy Pope-her
dam. Miss Staveley, Ia capital rnnner all
distances, aud the dam also oil Starch, steel
and several other excellent Iacefs) was
got by Shuttle out Of Drone mare, Ohe
dam OF Staveley, winner Of the great 81.
Lcger, Sligo, barefoot, and other winncrs)
Hangar was by Selim, (broiher TO Gas
trel and Rrubens) dam by Walton Dung
Grantees, 1.-THE best brood mare OF her day,
the dam of iSorcerer. Eleanor, julia. Lydla,
Cressida, dam of Priam, &c by doomed
--Gan,ess by Matcbem. Hangar IS near
ly the same blood with The celebrated
Sultan nov covering at $3.50, being got
by the same horses, their dams by own
brothers. Hangar IS the sire of several
first rates. Eleanor the best mare oil hct
day and the oniy winner of both Derby and
Oaks, dam of Muley. <, Of marlborough.
Margraye, and LeviathHn Waxy Pope
was by Waxy his dam, Prunella, dam
also OF Penelope, Parasol. Peiisse, Podar
gus Pioneer, Pledge, Pawn, piqnet, Pru
dence, Pope Joan, all ercettent) by High I
flyer; Waxy Pope, called also Lord Oh
COS Waxy, was not only winner OF the
Derby, but first as runner and stallion 10
MS day. FELT, al four years old. won
seven races out Of nine starts, being beat
hort distances. and winning the extraor
Iinsry number OF fee cups, which | do not
omember TO have been done by any other
lorse-he beat many capital runners !
noug them, Bolivar, Robin Hood, Clotil
Ia, Frederick (winner OF The Derby Sto-
orth, Retriever, bawnsleeves, Perseyer-
nee. DIR Faustus, al times winner Hal
ton. (22 times winnerl Terror, II times
Mona's Pride, Cistereian, Guido,
nc. To very many Of these horses he
rave weight at fashionable courses,
nd generally made play, relying on his
,Teat stoutness and game"
Extracts from authentic English Registers
and other sources:
"FELr started this year, nine times,
and won seven important races, five OF
which were Gold Cups, and ran second in
the eighth race, being beat by head, and
tho winner three or four tunes on
other occasions. He won in cups and
stakes SIS 900, and lost IN all his racing
career only four times. "A most extraor
binary and splendid performance, espcci
ally when il is considered thathe frequent
ly carried heavy extra weight"
The following strong evidence Of his
high character, is taken from tho Sporting
Magazine for 1885,
/" Having this year recruited his stable
with Lord WoTcester's FELr. his Lord |
ship has been gallant wnner--hayIng,
with this horse, carried off both the great
Trademarks Cups at Chester and Liver
pool and a 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 &c, ESQ. " He beat more
than than three hundred horses!
"FgLT's career on the turf was so bril- |
liant in England. that II caused his sire,
Hangar, Ga capital four mile horse 10 he
brought from ireland to England, where
he is now one of their best, and most pOPu
lar stations. The last season he had ~
winning colts. that won fifty two races,
and among them was Ellis, perhaps the
best Colt of this year, who won the great
St. Leger, and many other races, Hangar
is now covering mares by subscription at
a bout si25, and making full seasons too.
Felt, is very like his sire in form. action,
and marks, but is good bay, while Ian
gar is a chestnut Hangar is descended
from the same stock as Priam, they being
out of half sisters. Felt covered, IN 1886,
abou, one hundred mares at $50 season.
and 800 to insure. among them the cele
brsted Clara Fisher, Lady Lagrange.
Gray Girl, imported Prlmula, imported /
Zillah. imported Schemer, full sister OF /
Ohio, and many other fine mares" /
| ask it to be borne in mind, that the c
colts of all the horses which we have i'm. /
ported that are old enough and have been 5
ried fairly, are winners, and many of n
hem capital winners in England, as Cha !
eau Msrgaux, Luzborough, aud Flexible. ,
will also call the attention OF breeders to g
he running of the colts of such imported 4
lorses as have them old enough to run, {
nd they will see them winning all over
he United States, under every disadvan- :
age. Can breeders of the blood horse