The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-09-12

was pcopled and harnessed at the APP
= pointed time for her dcstinies. The
English horse owes his general disper-
sion over the Kingdom TO Henry VII.
who compelled every clergyman and
man of Office TO keep a horse. From
that day To this. no preacher will buy u
horse from another one. Henry estab-
lishcd the Chester races on The same spot
|, they are still run npon. When YOU de-
sire 10 remember this fact, think that
Richard Ill. who was known BY crook
in his back, was killed by Henry in n
stage-fight. They played all the same
the next night. however. Richard of
fercd ms Kingdom for horse three
times. Dd failed to be accommodated
which caused Henry to keep a great
many hot,es on hand for emergencies.
This lIule new reading shows the his
torical aci1iracv of Shakespeare. James
l., who staricd The Newmarket races,
was the first To import an Arabian.
named " Markham's Arabian for which
he paid f50O sterling. Then Cromwell.
Fairfax. and Buckingham successively
imported three stations called "Whiie
Turk" Morocco Barb" and "lIclm-
sley Turk. These stations. with some
horses from the Levant. imported bv
Charles H., are the Foundation of Eng
lisll blooded stock and one great horse.
American Eclipse" WAS Of the blood
of" Ilelmsley Turk The work went
on, as have said. until Queen Annc's
iilne. and. just after the close of her
reign. there were thirty-one foreign and
iitty native stations in their prime in
England. About this time. the first m
cing-calendar was published in England.
and the stud. books of that country are
as accurate as the Peerage-lists. A
bloodcd horse is not eight pure crosses
back : il is clear derivation, with Oricn-
tai blood on both sides up 10 known
paternity and dam.
THE FIRST THOROUGHBRED
Facing horse of America was imported
into Maryland :" spark the gift Of
Lord Baltimore TO Gov. Oglc from the /,
Prince of Wales, about 1882. From this |
time forward, the Governors of Mary
land kept racing studs. rs Ridgly, |
Wright, Lloyd, and Sprigg and Gov.
Bowie maintained the practice even
after the rebellion. Into the same State |
the Red Fox was introduced from Eng
land in 1880. From 1882 to 1745, Wash
ington was young turf hunter in both :
senses; he got rich widow. and kept
fine steeds. In 1850, Col. Tasker i'm
ported Selma straight from $50
dolphin Arabian into Maryland. The
Livingstones. OF New York the Stock
tons, of New Jersey the Alstons, IIamp-
tons, and Washingtons. of South Caro-
lima; and The Taylors. lIoomeses. Sell
.lnhngAnl a. L..
imported directly from England; SO that
our stock record, even before the Revo-
luton, was as certain rs the English,
but in that conflict. it was destroyed.
The character of officers horses. how
ever, in that struggle. showed the adj
vantage of the breeding. They were at
most wholly responsible for the first i'm
por.ations of British thoroughbred stock
into America. We had horse wees in /
New York and the South while still
colonies: and little tobacco-shipping |
villages, now nearly extinct in the tide |
water country, were the seats of mem
orable races. as well as the greater ports .
and cities. The great horse " Dioned.r I
father of "Sir Archy." by imported /
. selma, the parents and the Nimrod
Of the American turf-was foaled in |
l177 and imported 10 Virginia in John j
Adams Administration. The great ,
horse Messenger was imported TO
New \ lork three wears before Washing
Ion became President. or IN 1886. "Sir i
Archy was foaled on the James River i
IN 1905. the father Of " Sir Charles " and
= Sir Henry" And his father bio (,
med" was the great grandfather of both
e Boston" and Fashion Thus began
The American turf. and we have not ina-
proved upon IL even with dircctlv-im- \
ported Arabians and Rnrbs. - showing
hat the stock was perfected already.
President Jackson received stced, from
tie Royal stables OF the Dcy cf Algicrs
and from the sultan Of Muscat; presi- =
lent Van Buren, from the Emperor of {
Morocco. Commodore Elliott aud Others '
imported directly from Barbary. But {
no imported Barb Arab. or Turk ever Q
got horse Of any pretcnsions on the ]
American turf The English thorough I
breds have done il ALL .
This proves that blood will tell. AS
The Latin poet wrote in the reign of
Augustus:
There may he nsieers. there be IN horses blood;
They DO transmit from sire 20 their good.
M 49, l.