Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-12-17

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THERE'S MONEYi IMs BLOOD,
Pedsgrses as sne -OIi, Imported rhor-
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The late rebellion furnished the very
strongest evidence eof the superiority of
the Hbloodea horse over the cold
blooded animal, for it isIani undisputed
ssot that th horsesf that carried tho
southern cayalrymen were much better
campaignera than those taken from the
north to isseet them. The cavalry
horses OF Gle union army were gener-
ally Target karned. heavy.bodied, COARSE
limbed, alstJasy scrubs; while those Of
the soul tawere medium-size, light,
clean ade active, enduring, we'll bred,
and maay Of Them thoroughbred. And,
although ,She former were much better
they could tot travel as MANY miles in q
day, ast many days in succession nor
with as much ease to themselves and
In the north and west many consider
the fact that h horse was captured DUR
ing the war or his Sire and dam came
from the soath, bdfffccishtl evidences that
the animal is we'll bred, and in our mar
ket to day a horse known to have been
bred in Kentucky or Tennessee, even
without q we'll .substantiated pedigree,
will sell for fifty per cent. more than
one bred al Indiana, though in size.
gait, age and general appearance there
may not he particle of difference be-.
tween thestaTo. lIAndgthis lis easily ao-
counted for from the fact that it is gem
orally known. that breeders in the south
have been our heaviest importers of
thoroughbrAds from Europe, are devo-
ted patronsof the tnrf, and would not
waste their time and money in the pro-
duction Of IN inferior animal.
Some Of those who sneer at ped;G.-sssss,
and boast of their ability to discover
with the eye all the virtues or defects
that the hesse can possess, are disposed
to to question the purity of the blood Of
the early importations, and argue that
previous 20 1929, there is no guarantee
for the fidelity of pedigree that traces
back TO IN animal brought to this coun-
try from Europe before that year. But,
unfortunately for this theory, Mr..
Bruce. the compiler of the American
Stud Book, has obtained an abundance
of we'll supstaptiated docums ntary evil
dence TO prove the authenticity of the
pedigrees olaimed for all, or nearly all,
the horses imported before and since
the wAr FOR American Independence.
Moreover, The very first importations
were of $ha Tssy best, and nearest the
fountain ns nsssd <it5 carly as q 40 81 @fE0r-
key, by the Lonsdale bay Arab, al
though twenty.one years old, crossed
the Atlantic and got some good stock,
and he was followed the next year by
Jolly Roger, by Roundhead, out of
mare by Crott's Partner. In England
he was called Roger of the Vale, and
his descendants there are highly priced.
he died in Greenvilie county, Va, i'm
1772, and in this country was consid-
cred second only to the great Fear
naught, by Regulus out Of Silvertail,
who was imported into Virginia by Col.
John Baylor in 1854, and died in '76,
twenty-onely years old. In 1850 Lord
Baltimore presented Mr.. Ogle, governor
of Maryland, with Spark, and about the
same time tho governor imported Queen
NAB, by Musgrover's gray Arab. NDpr-
ing this year Col. Tasker, of Maryland,
imported Selma, daughter Of the
Godolphin Arabian, and the dam of
Partner, Ariel, Stella, Ebony, Babra-
ham, Little Jupiter, Black Selma,
Camilla and Selim. She was one Of the
very best mares ever brought to the
country, and her. blood is sought after
till this day. Then came Miss Colville,
known in the" English Stud Book" as
Wilkes old HautboY mare, Jenny Gam.
erop. Routh's Grab, Morton's Traveller
by Partner, dam by Bloody Buttoek's
Arabian, and many others whose names
appear in the pedigrees of our modern
race horse.
The love of racing was soon i'm
planted in the colonies of Maryland and
Virginia, from whom it spread to North
and South Carolina, and, Immediately
after their first settlement, Tennessee
and Kentucky imported some very cele-
brated horses, and turf sport became
the most popular amusement. New
York joined in at later period, al
though there was small race ceurse at
Newmarket and one at Jamaica before
the revolution. Feom 1900 to 1916 the
gre,t stables of the north and south were
carried on under most honorable ri
valry but about this time the turf in
the north WAS abandoned by its prinei-
pal supporters, and racing was carried
on as business, regardless of that
honorable spirit which had previously
distinguished it, by professional train
ers and jockeys. In fact it may b. said
that from 1845 to 1856 racing was en-
tirely confined to the southern states,
where it continued to deserve and re-
ceive the patronage of all classes of 30
oiety up to the breaking out Of the re!
bellion.
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