The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-03-30
QUARTER HORSES.
The Celebrated Horse ATIeE-Re mark able
EzuarlcI- Tfnle-SghIP stock


\ writer in Wilkes Spirit contributes
the following to the literature OF qdarser
racing:
AriePs dam was very fast mare, and
while on a professional tour in charge OF
her trainer, otie Johnny Hawkins, was
surreptitiously got in foal by horse
known as Little Printer. This was IN
the winter. In the spring Hawkins con
ciuded to breed the mare to horse III
Tennessee. I think PacOlet, and she was
accordingly sent to a Mr.. Walker, who
lived near Lebanon, Tenn. This gentle
man foUnd shs vas in fOal, and in the
course of time she had hef fOalj q little,
Misunderstanding gray colt. The
mare was then bred as desired, and sent
home to Natchez, to her owner, Mr.. Per
kins. but the colt did not accompany her.
Mrs Perkins wrote to Nlr. Walker to
know the reason he had not sent the little
veatling home with the mare, and re-
ceived a reply to the effect that the colt
was such little thing that he iWalker)
did not think it would ever grow enough
to be of service to any one, and he had
given it to his little boy, who kept 1t IN
| the ward for playmate. Mr.. Perkins,
| however. was determined tOhave the colt,
and he sent his overseer after 1t, who pre-
! sented the little boy with a one dollar
| bill to reconcile him to parting with his
DlavfeIIow. The colt had been named
| Ariel. and when but two years old he ran
and wen a quarter race. From this time
| he ran and won twenty-One races, and
never met defeat. Men from all parts OF
! the western and southern states Travelled
| to Natchez, and other meetings, to beat
| him, but without success. Eventually
| he became 50 renowned that ne man
would match his horse against him, but
at last his owner staked him, at game
| of faro, against eight hundred dollars, ana
! lost him. His new owners then traVsled
all over Tennessee, Georgia, North and
! South CarOlinas, and Alabama, and MI.
! Tincock. who raced him most of this
time, told me that frequently he would
have to give horses that were called
crack quarter horses ten to twenty feet
start, and he would beat them from thir-
tv to forty feet on the outcome. He was
raced until in his eleventh year, and was
then nut to the stud, where he distln,
guished himself as much as he had done
on the turf He remained at the stud
until he was seventeen years old. MI
Iincock owned at that time a very fast
quarter nag, with which he was about 10
/ and did. make a racing tour through
Texas. He concluded that, as the sea
son was over with Ariel, he would cantel
him few weeks, so as to be able to tes
two thinos-frst, to see if Ariel had los
his speed from age; and, second, to give
his mare a trial to see if she was as gOOC
"a he thought her. Mr. LincOCk told mt
that he only had Ariel up four week
when he ran the pair together, and Are
beat the mare thirty feet in a race o
four hundred and forty yards, and tina
thev ran the quarter in twenty-five sec
onds. A few days after, he concluded t.
try them again over the same distance
: thinking that the mare must have beer
" OFF, in the previous trial. Ariel, be
ing sore from his former run, flew tn
track. and struck his head against one O
the posts of the Judges stand, an
knocked off the top of his Uranium, Ieay
ing the brain exposed. lie tried ever
means to save the life of his tavorlte, bu
y Intellectually, and finally he was Obllge
! to put him out of his misery. He wa
: buried under the judges stand, onrthe oil
, race track, at Memphis.
! ArieIs form was perfection. lie W.
r a rather long, low, strong horse, pOsscssIn
a great deal of bone, an immense grOwt
, of name and tail, and stood under tOu
:
! bav. his dam a gray, hence his colo
The nearest he ever came to being beatC
e was when Thomas mare made tie wit
v him in running a dash race Of SIX hu
. dred wards. which was about one hu
20 dred and fifty yards beyond his tavorl
~ distance, although he had run mi
:. trial with Hard Heart over the ;
% Catherine course at NatcheZ, IN the III
II half mile of which he beat Hard Hes
"a over a hundred yards, but the latt
!, heat him i'm the mile double that d
- tance, because he ran himself out a
+ quit. The late Capt. W. j. Minor to
20 me and many others that he and sol
II other gentlemen timed Ariel down
o hOmestretch at Natchez, measuT
1e quarter Of a mile, in seventeen sccon'
r. From Capt Minors Proverbial honest!
,is | believed that he thought 50, and iron
- knowledge of his clear and CautIC
a. Judgment ] infer that he could not
ON mistaken. ] afterwards met Capt. II
NJ stall, and, after narrating to hlm wi
:, Can't. Minor had said, he replied that
in firmly believed it, for he himself d
.i,- owned a fast horse called Champion, "
De- in two heats had run quarter mile
I83s.-l98s., and Ariel had beaten t
horse very easily in two races. The
4 - count of the last days Of Ariel / receI'
ms from Mr.. LincOck himself, and '
oss elected from him on my telling b
eli about Ariel having been timed quar-
"a in seventeen seconds. lie declared &
,os he fully believed it from the fact OF
,,5 running that distance in or under tw
he tv-two seconds when in his seventh yt
70 after having been abused and negiec
his throughout his racing career, and be
-ad confined TO the stables all through
his season. To run, therefore, a quarter
on less than twenty-five seconds under s.
NJ circumstances. and with 50 short a tn
ION ing preparation, he regarded As "
ust derfnl performance, and fully prepa
,e5s him to believe Capt. Minors staten
,er- of his great trial. He knew well
ON Ariel had beaten horses forty feet, vi
nse owners declared they had often rul
fin twentv-One or twenty-five seconds. ;
,tIv was Ariel, the fastest horse in the W
led of whom we have any well-authentIc
,ort record.
ION Rhodes, Cooks, or Blackbum's "
lest Tor he is one and the same horse, was
nee Of the fastest horses Of his day, M
any mile heats. but the wonderful spec
our impaired to his stock carried then
distances. Some Of the best stoC
, TO Kentucky are descended from him.
law. | Iowcraft and Wildidlc result fro
ate Whip cross, as do also Frankfort
Wild Irishman, Bonnie. Laddle,