The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-10-02
The Turf Of Old.
From an English Paper.


: blood took place He not only kept
..z-=-=.z.= running horses, but founded many
annual plates.
The barley Arabian, sire of Chill
ders, was brought to this country in
the reign Of Queen Anne il, ard the
animal was frstimported into France
from Barbary, a present Git is sup
posed from the Emperor of Morocco
to Louis W.; but so little was he
10y Valuedin Paris, that be was actually
employed in draught." Every ssupe-
,rior English racer partakes of his
x valuable blood. GHeGdied at Hog
Magog, in Cambridgeshire, in the
twenty=mpth year of his age, and is
buried there In a covered passage
leading to his stable, with fat stone
without any inscription, since epitah
he did not need. In all the prints of
- the day he is represented with his
faithful feline friend-the cat, pinned
< - to death for the loss, of him. These
y Arabians, however, are much less
celebrated for what they did them
- 3 selves than for the progeny which
they begat. : Z .l6sihII
Is i The illustrious Flying Childers (got
by the barley Arabian out of Betty
--.''' Leeds, mare said to have produced
no other ofspring,) chestnut horse,
white on his nose. and with four
was the feetest horse that ever ran at
r. .,.d Newmarket, or =. probably anywhere
else, and was never beaten.
ECLIPSE was also e chestnut (got by
the great eclipse of 1854, from which
he took his name. He also was never
co beaten, and has The reputation of
Flying Childers only. He was the
FIRST horse that ever travelled in van,
but this was as a stallion, and when
his racing days were over in his youth
he was by no means g pampered
a. ,6,, animal His temper was SO terrible
that it was thought impossible that
he could ever be brought to the post
ggA1 On this account heTwasVplaced under
49, rough rider at EPSON, aspoacher by
"a profession, who frequently kept the
horse out all night; but in spite of
q ~ this discipline his jockeys never at
- 40 tempted to- hold him, contenting
VIZ themselves with sitting quiet upon
the saddle. In his first Irace-there
were four miles heats in those days
though the. horses were all together
at the three-mile post. he distanced
q .ao.I the whole of them, though pulled
= 20 z with the whole strength his rider
~ e could exert; yet he had not been
az e. :. struck, but only alarmed by the flour
- ish of the whip. o3ri d.a.ssess
7-tt EciipSt 10 goucrdlly U0ileVeU 10 nave
ef.s., covered eighty-three feet of ground
5 in second when at the top of his
7ss pace, or about twenty-five feet at a
single stride. Flying Childers, it is
Said, covered the same ground but
Z performed still more wonderful feats
OF speed. Carrying nine stone two
pounds, he ran over the round course
.S1J at Newman ket, three miles six fur
longs and ninety-three yards In lengthy
in six minutes and four seconds; and
also over the Beacon course. flour
miles, one furlong, and 1873 yards,) in
. Aa- seven minutes and a, half. These in
stances seem to be we'll, authenticated,
and, though published with every de-
tail at the time, do not seem to have
present day. however, it is certain,
cannot accomplish such marvels, to
whatever reason-such as the being
run too young, whereas Chllders and
Eclipse did not appear in public until
a five years, old-their 20 inferority
.a may be aseribed. Nevertheless, if
III beaten by their .5fforefathers, they
.ao94 cannot be yanquishedy by the off.
spring of any foreign stock On the
4th of August TOR instante) 1926.
two second-rateJ English racers,
Sharper and Nina. commended against
0a2 thelmuchl celebrated Cossack horse
from the Don, the Black Sea, and the
UraI, IN race OF a cruel distance of
forty-seven miles. AT starting,
s. r Sharper ard Nina ran away with their
riders more than mile, and in very
steep hill, where the latter horse
broke down, and was consequently
pulled up. Half the distance was
run in an hour and forty minutes In
= ~ the last half only one, of the many
= "a Cossack horses who farted was able
to contend with Sharper, who, not
withstanding every foul advantage
was taken, by changing the weight,
and even dragging his opponent along
with rope, won his race in gallant
style, performing the facein two hours
and forty-eight minutes. At start
ing, the English horses carried three
stones more weight than the Cos
sacks and during the last half of the
race, the one Cossack that remained
In it was ridden by mere child"