oveR cceeding spring he beat, "with great ease," Mr. William Wypr AME mare Lady of the Lake, two mile heats, ove List of winning horses, for 1831 and 2, 30 Challenge-Bertrand, Jr. and Little Of thirty stallions advertised in 1832, with their prices, &c. . Of twelve stallions advertised in Of several horses of the olden time, EMBELLISHMENT-Portraiture of CAROLINIAN, engraved by Bannerman from an original painting. THE well executed engraving by Mr. Bannerman, of CAROLINIAN, performances, and those of his get, and to counteract, in some measure, the untoward circumstances that have attended him ← JUL 201608174004 ent for ; where > very proanother, the very large offers have been refused. It is fair to state further in his behalf, that amongst the causes which have prevented his attaining that height of celebrity to which his blood, figure, and powers would have elevated him, is the fact of his having passed much of his time in Louisa, Orange, Madison, Culpepper, Spotsylvania, and Fauquier counties, where there were few thoroughbred mares, and scarcely one regular racing establishment. On the score of his family, few can sustain higher claims to distinction. One-half of his blood being derived from Sir Archy himself, it will be admitted there is no alloy there. The other branch comes through his dam by the imported Druid; his grandam by Old Wildair, best son of old Fearnought; his g. grandam by Americus, his g. g. grandam by the imported Old Janus, his g. g. g. grandam also by Old Janus, his g. g. g. g. grandam by the imported horse Moor's Partner, his g. g. g. g. g. grandam by the imported horse Old Jolly Roger, out of the imported mare Kitty Fisher. Carolinian was bred by Major Philip Claiborne, of Setwood, in Brunswick county, Virginia, and was foaled 28th of May, 1815. In confirmation of his blood, his owners have exhibited a certificate from P. N. Edgar, Esq. from which the following is extracted. Mr. E. it is known has made pedigrees his assiduous study for years, in the compilation of his American Stud Book. "I do certify, that I have traced the pedigree of the celebrated racehorse Carolinian on the General Stud Book of England, and pronounce the aforesaid horse to be thoroughbred, and the whole family whence he has descended I consider to be of as pure blood as any horse either in this country, or in England. Carolinian's blood can be traced in the above book as far back as the following horses in England:-Place's White Turk, imported by Mr. Place, stud-keeper to Oliver Cromwell, in the year 1652, when he was protector. The Lyster or Straddling Turk, 1653. Dodsworth's dam, 1546." Of the performances of Carolinian the account before us is not full, but it authorizes the statement, that he commenced his career at Warrenton, in the autumn of 1818, then three years old, beating Mr. Plumer's mare, by Sir Archy. At Drummondsburgh he won the great poststake, and the high distinction of beating the afterwards so much renowned Virginian. In that race he also beat Mr. Worsham's Quickstep. The succeeding spring he beat, "with great ease," Mr. William Wynn's celebrated mare Lady of the Lake, two mile heats, over the New Hope course, near Halifax. In reference to that contest, it is affirmed by Mr. W. C. House, who had charge of Carolinian two seasons, as his opinion, "after considerable experience in regard to training and running horses," that he beat the Lady of the Lake "in the highest possible style;" and that he on that day could have "contended successfully with any horse in America." Subsequently to the race above mentioned, he beat Mr. McLin's brown horse, by Sir Archy; Mr. J. J. Harrison's Wild Rover, by Florizel, and several others. His being beaten after this, by horses which he had previously beaten, was ascribed to an injury he received on his way to Newmarket; which became so apparent as to cause him to be withdrawn from the turf, until 1823; when, after having covered three seasons, he was again trained and ran three races-one at Boydton, one at Milton, North Carolina, and one at Charlotte, all of which he won with ease against "many fine horses." From the comparatively few mares of high blood that have been to Carolinian, there have been produced "Mr. Reed's celebrated horse Crawford, who proved himself a winner and first rate horse in the state of Georgia in many races." He is the sire of Lady Pest, and also of Red Rover, who, though in bad condition, won the Jockey Club purse at Jerusalem last spring, beating several good horses;—and subsequently won the first heat of four miles at Newmarket, in May last, in which Bonnets o' Blue, Sally Hornet, and others were his competitors. After the race, being taken lame and turned out, his owner refused $3000 for him. Carolinian is the sire also of Bayard, who figures so conspicuously in the Racing Calendar of the Turf Register, and who ran the severe race at Treehill last spring, in which he made the first a dead heat with Goliah, and the last a dead heat with Nullifier. Black Warrior, Young Carolinian, Metamora, Black Jack, Emigrant, Symmetry, Peacock, &c. &c. are stallions of his get. Carolinian will stand again the ensuing season, under the superintendance of W. L. White, Esq., at Spring Grove, Hanover county, Virginia, where more than a hundred mares received the benefit of his services the last season. In figure he stands nearly sixteen hands, of great muscular development, and commanding appearance. In colour Carolinian is a dappled bay, with black legs, mane and tail-a white snip on his nose, and a little white on his left hind foot. |