The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-03-10

may run one mile IN lao, to run seconu
heat OF four mi!es--l was going 10 say 'h
eiyht ,o,uutes but the fact Is nincfy.hve per
cent. OF them would be finished hy one heat
of four miles in 7:I5. Stations OF TINS
class. bred TO common-purpose mares, VIII
hiring contempt upon racc-horse blood for
nee IN blowing or reading, or riding tong
distances, or carrying weight to size. Even
for making a parade horse for show he
would fail, for the most Of them. though
starting out fine, would In an hours sweat
be looking like wiIted dollhouse plant, as
he Il.
But the writer IL not In
THE HORSE BUSINESS,
AID did not start 10 say so much. Judge
Uucbes's letter stirred up some OF ihe ola
feeling that he imbibed in his infancy, when
Virginia was.o He Is old enough 10 re-
member the Tayloes, Wynns, Mlnees, Hares,
Of Ia otnne. including old Captain Belcher,
hut lately departed, who trained Timoieon
first. and IN, great son Boston afterward;
and also remembers when the air was ftiii
az Ariel. Gohanna. Goliah, Tiifle, Sally
Hone. sally Hornet, FIrtilla, Andrew. aud
a hundred others, aud when Virginia WAS
circled all over with race. c0nrses-now
not one and almost every county had
n breeder OF race-borses. Fairfield, Tree
Hill, Broadrock. Lyncbburg, Boydton,
Halifax. New Market, Hanover Courthouse,
Warrentou-eveIyw wherein full blast. and
Kept hot by game holses having "sub-
stance" aud the effects OF whose blood can
be traced by the horse student In many OF
the cOuntry.places o! Old Virginia to TINS
day. see now in my minds eye tue sod
man" boswell, on his gray, cutting across
the track. making chord 10 The circle so a.
10 give his boy the word at the critical mo-
ment, and hear "Old Hare" yelling out at
the same time TO bis boy, "Let him go,'
white the crowd, all Virginians, stand with
their pent no breath ready for that od'time
shout, that just exactly like IL we viii never
hear again.
The general average Of Judge Hugbes's
ideas, in the opinion OF the writer, | would
Ike - say is correct. Some climates and
some soils are filter 10 raise some special
animals than others are 10 raise these same
animals.
The writer believes that there are no
ORIGINAL BREEDS OF HORSES
that +, going back million years or -
that practically the horse now is the same
2nimaI be has always b en-. in number Of
benes, muscles, general conformation, &c.,
but climate, soil, manipulation, food, and
purpose have made different types. Ii the
game was worth the candle, II would be pos
>ibe TO take one thousand Shetland ponies
aud produce from them the Perchcr0n, The
ClydeSdae, the Punch, and the race-horSe,
lust a. sc have them now, but we would
nave wasted perhaps Il (! 0u>aud years or 20
to do tins thing. We could not do il, how
ever, in the shetland I>Ies, but we could
take some Il them TO country where lux
intent grasses were indigenous, and where
we could Get grain also cheap.
After awhile we should baye our Clydes-
daes, Punches, &C., our biz, sOft.b0ned.
thick flit-footed, lon@-haiied
brues. Some Of our ponies we would take
to one place aud some TO another. Some,
in order TO make r1ce-hOrse>, we would take
10 q dry. temperate climate, like Eastern
Virginia, and let them eat short grass, not
grow too fat. but would Increase their s'ze
to an average horse. Select the individuals
and try them on cOur>e--one, two, and
three, and four miles at heat. Breed from
the proved ones--frOm the wInnerS-aud
after awhile we would have race horse
with hard bone, big luug>, length where II
was needed, and lack Of it where ii is needed
also. and the ability 10 90 the gait and dis
shall have il.
| believe that
THE ARAB HORSE
imported into Canada, and bred upon him
self. will get long hair aud become differ
cnt horse. believe, imported into Eastern
Virginia and parts Of North and South Car
Olna tand give him a little sand 10 eat, he
can he kept nearly to bis type.
| also say that while the improved Eng
fish rdce.hOIse can beat the little Arabs IN
certain kinds OF trials Of speed. am not
prepared to accept it a: proved fac. that
the Arabs cannot, under certain conditions,
show their superiority Of endurance over a
distance OF ground with meagre feeding.
hot sun, dc.
But, Mr.. Editor, will stop or Won will
stop me. "Virginia race-hOrSes" il big
subject, and how we would hike TO see YOU,
Mr.. Editor, let yourself out on IL. WHAT a
stirring thing you could make Of II. Never
fear. IL viii not hurt Kentucky. Breeders
raise horses to sell, and they know what
buyers want and they breed for 1t. The
times change. People don't want Bosons
and Planets these DAYS. nor horse to wear
too long. firmly believe that such i the
tendency OF the age that people would get
=
and would prefer to 90 and see new one,
even if the old one was Hyperion TO Il Sliyr.
will close thi, hurried meIlnge by max.
Ing passing aliuslOn TO horse mentioned
by Judge Hughes. | happened TO see him
run his last race. Oh, he was the most
rinqed like looking animal | ever behelG-
Of least thought so then. He appeared TO
move in the air, and, geding though be was,
be seemed in his walking action to spurn
the earth. | allude 10 Inspector, by Boston.
out OF Sarah Washington. | was at the.
Washington course when be broke his leg.
| understood he ran over 4 seaman on tie
course but did not see the circumstance,
if It happened.
There were
THREE HORSES ~ THE RACE
him>e elf, JEFF. Davis, and Monte. ii anybody
had riSked a small sum there that day
against the fOlcgOne conclusion that tie
race was entirely between Monte and Ia
speci0r. what big percentage he could
have made Of II! II was, think, four
race, and the betting was pretty
the fayOrite, JEFF. Davis
not thought Of.
,Jeh. was ridden by black.cOlorcd boy
black rs the ace OF spades fitzpatrick rode
Inspector, and another white boy rode
Monte. noticed what | never observed
before, that the boy on .Jcif, Davis hit him
two or three severe raps with stout hick-
DRY ia the first two hundred yards Of the.
first heat Of 2 four-mile race. ! suppose he
knew his man, however. During the beat
| went over to the back-Streich OF the track
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