The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-31
QUARTER HORSES.
The Celebrated Horse ArieI-RemarkabIe
Quarter rTine-Whip Stock.

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7 the following to the literature of quarter
racing:
, Ariels dam was very fast mare, and
while on professional tour in charge o.
, her trainer, one Johnny Hawkins, wa:
: surreptitiously got in foal by horse
known as Little Printer This was in
: the winter. In the spring Hawkins con-
cluded to breed the mare to horse in
Tennessee, think Pacolet, and she was
accordingly sent to a Mr.. Walker, who
lived near Lebanon, Tenn. This gentle.
man found she was in foal, and in the
course of time she had her foal, little,
nsignifcant-looking 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.
Mr.. Perkins wrote to Mr.. Walker to
know the reason he had not sent the little
yearling home with the mare, and re-
ceived a reply to the effect that the colt
was such little thing that he (Walker)
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 it in
the yard for playmate. Mr.. Perkins,
however, was determined tohave the colt
and he sent his overs eer after it, who pre-
sented the little boy with one dollar
bill to reconcile him to parting with his
playfellow. The colt had been named
| Ariel, and when but two years old he ran
and won quarter race. From this time
he ran and won twentyone 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 so renowned that no man
would match his horse against him, but
at last his owner staked him, at a game
of faro, against eight hundred dollars, and
| lost him. His new owners then travelled
all over Tennessee, Georgia, North and
South Carolinas, and Alabama, and Mr..
Lincock, 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-
ty to forty feet on the outcome. He was
raced until in his eleventh year, and was
then put to the stud, where he distin-
guished himself as much as he had done
on the turf He remained at the stud
until he was seventeen years old. Mr..
Lincock owned at that time very fast
quarter nag, with which he was about to,
and did, make a racing tour through
Texas. He concluded that, as the sea-
son was over with Ariel, he would canter
him few weeks, so as to be able to test
two things-first, to see if Ariel had lost
his speed from age; and, second. t0 give
his mare a trial to see if she was as good
as he thought her. Mr.. Lincock told me !
that he only had Ariel up four weeks |
when he ran the pair together, and Ariel |
beat the mare thirty feet in a race of
four hundred and forty yards, and that |
they ran the quarter in twenty-five sec
Onds. A few days after, he concluded to |
try them again over the same distance,
thinking that the mare must have been |
"of' in the previous trial. Ariel, be-
ing sore from his former run, flew the
track. and struck his head against one of |
the posts of the judges stand, and
knocked off the top of his Uranium, leav-
ing the brain exposed. He tried every
means to save the life of his favorite, but
Intellectually, and finally he was obliged
to put him out of his misery. He was
buried under the judges stand, on, the old
race track, at Memphis.
AriePs form was perfection. He was
a rather long, low, strong horse, possessing
a great deal of bone, an immense growth
of name and tail, and stood under four
TEEN hands in height. His sire was
bay, his dam gray, hence his color.
The nearest he ever came to being beaten
was when Thomas mare made a tie with
him in running dash race of six hun
dred yards, which was about one hun
dred and fifty yards beyond his favorite
distance, although he had run a mile
trial with Hard Heart over the st.
Catherine course at Natchez, in the first
half mile of which he beat Hard Heart
over a hundred yards, but the latter
beat him in the mile double that dis
tance, because he ran himself out and
quit. The late Capt. w. j. Minor told
me and many others that he and some
other gentlemen timed Ariel down the
homestretch at Natchez, a measured
quarter of a mile, in seventeen seconds.
From Capt Minors proverbial honesty l
believed that he thought so, and from a
knowledge of his clear and cautious
judgment | infer that he could not be
mistaken. l afterwards met Capt. Tun-
stall, and, after narrating to him what |
Capt. Minor had said, he replied that he
owned fast horse called Champion, who
in two heats had run quarter mile in
1S3s-198s., and Ariel had beaten this
count of ths last DAYS of Ariel received
from Mr.. Lincock himself, and was
elected from him on my telling him
about Ariel having been timed a quarter
in seventeen seconds. lie declared that |
he fully believed it from the fact of his
running that distance in or under twen-
ty-twO seconds when in his seventh year,
after having been abused and neglected
throughout his racing career, and being
confined TO the stables all through the
season. To run, therefore, quarter in
less than twenty-five seconds under such
circumstances, and with so short a train
ing preparation, he regarded as a won
derfril performance, and fully prepared |
him to believe Capt. Minors statement |
of his great trial. He knew well that |
Ariel had beaten horses forty feet, whose
owners declared they had often run in
twenty one or twenty-five seconds. Such |
was Ariel, the fastest horse in the world
of whom we have any ywell-authenticated |
record.
Rhodes, Cooks, or Blackburn's Whip.
for he is one and the same horse, was one |
of the fastest horses of his day, up to
mile heats, but the wonderful speed he
impaired to his stock carried them all |
distances. Some of the best stock in |
Kentucky are descended from him. Eel
lowcraft and Wildidle result from a
Nulp cross, as 10 dIsO Tdnk1OrJ ana
Wild Irishman, Bonnie Laddie, and |
Bonnie Lassie so do, also, OIitipa and
Local. Uncle Vic and Victory, Nemesis
and Golden Gate His own immediate
produce were racers at all distances.
Old Tiger, Grecian Princess, Little Tiger,
Whipster, the sire of Lady Adams, Can
mons Whip (sire of Red Buck and Cow
driver were all by him. Cowdriver was /
a fast quarter horse. | saw him, in 1882,
on the Jackson track, below New Or
leans, run a faster mile than | ever saw
any horse, and the following year, at St. |
Louis, / saw him win the mile heats,
three in five, in fast time He was by /
Bannon's Whip, dam by imp. Bluster
Blackburn's Whip was bred for speed ON