Le Wellesley Arabian, d'après une gravure dans une encyclopédie anglaise datée de 1831.
English: The Wellesley Arabian Identifier: newfamilyencyclo00good (find matches) Title: A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings Year: 1831 (1830s) Authors: Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1790-1862 Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.) Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: when OKelly observing that the riderhad been pulling at Eclipse during the whole race, offered a wager thathe would distance the horses in the next heat. This seemed a thing sohighly improbable, that he immediately had bets to a large amount.Being called on to declare, he replied Eclipse first, and the rest nowhere! The event justified his prediction: all the others were dis-tanced by Eclipse with the greatest ease, or, in the language of the turf,they had no place. In the spring of the following year, he beat Mr. Wentworths Buce-phalus, who had never before been conquered. Two days afterward-,he distanced Mr. Strodes Pensioner, a very good horse: and in Augustof the same year he won the greatest subscription at York. No horsedaring to enter against him, he closed his short career of seventeenmonths, by walking over the Newmarket course for the kings plate, onOctober the 18th, 1770. He was never beaten, nor ever paid forfeit;and won for his owner more than twenty-five thousand pounds. Text Appearing After Image: THE WELLESLEY ARABIAN. Wellesley Arabian. This is the very picture of a beautiful wildhorse of the desert, his precise country was never determined, althoughit is known that he was a horse of foreign extraction. He is evidentlyneither a perfect Barb, nor a perfect Arabian, but from a neighbouringprovince, where both the Barb and Arabian would expand to a mor«perfect fullness of form. This horse has been erroneously selected asthe pattern of a superior Arabian, and therefore we have introducedhim; few, however, of his produce were trained who can add much tohis reputation. It has been imagined that the breed of racing horses has lately veryconsiderably degenerated. This is not the case. Thorough-bred horseswere formerly fewer in number and their performances created greater G 74 FAMILY HUNTER. GALLOWAYS AND PONIES. wbnder. The breed has now increased twenty fold, and superiority isnot so easily obtained among so many competitors. If one circumstancecould more than any other, produce t Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.