ДЖОН Х. УОЛЛЕС.
ЛОШАДЬ АМЕРИКИ: её происхождение, история и развитие.
Прослеживание родословной с помощью множества недавно обнаруженных данных, через все эпохи, от первых зари истории до наших дней.
Включая лошадей колониального периода, доселе не исследованных, с описанием их истории, размеров, аллюров и характеристик в каждой из американских колоний.
Показано, как разводят рысистых лошадей, а также приведена история публикаций, благодаря которым была сформирована порода рысаков.
С картами и иллюстрациями.
ДЖОН Х. УОЛЛЕС, основатель «Американского рысистого регистра Уоллеса», «Ежемесячника Уоллеса», «Ежегодника Уоллеса» и др.
НЬЮ-ЙОРК: ИЗДАНО АВТОРОМ. 1897.
Зарегистрировано в соответствии с актом Конгресса ДЖОНОМ Х. УОЛЛЕСОМ в 1897 году в Вашингтоне, округ Колумбия.
ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ.
Изучение лошади с первых проблесков истории, священной и светской, и прослеживание её пути от первоначальной родины через миграции, пока все народы земного шара не получили своих первых лошадей, возможно, не является новой идеей, но это, безусловно, новое начинание. Было написано бесчисленное множество книг о лошадях, в основном в завершающемся столетии, но в истории лошади они все одинаковы — просто воспроизводят то, что было напечатано ранее. Поэтому, насколько мне известно, этот том является первой попыткой на любом языке определить первоначальную среду обитания лошади и проследить её историческое распространение.
Факты, представленные относительно появления лошади в Египте, а две тысячи лет спустя — в Аравии, а также плебейская кровь, от которой английская чистокровная верховая лошадь унаследовала свою огромную скорость, станут шоком для нервов романтиков как старого, так и нового света. Сопоставив исторические факты и хорошо известный опыт, мои читатели могут сами решить, не является ли чистой фикцией утверждение о превосходстве арабской крови. Что касается меня, я не могу признать никакой крови во всем конном мире «королевской», кроме той, что течет в жилах лошади, которая «вышла и доказала это» — либо сама, либо своим потомством.
В нашей собственной стране в истории лошади всегда оставался пробел, который никто не пытался заполнить. Этот пробел охватывал столетие скачек, о которых мы, нынешнее поколение, были совершенно не осведомлены. Полагая, что правильное знание о лошади колониального периода, её размерах, аллюрах, качествах и способностях абсолютно необходимо для разумного понимания явлений, наблюдаемых на наших рысистых и скаковых дорожках в наши дни, я без колебаний посвятил этой новой части работы большой труд и исследования. В этом я испытал особое удовлетворение от того факта, что, хотя область стара по датам, это первый раз, когда она была пройдена и рассмотрена.
В последующих главах многие исторические вопросы рассматриваются настолько подробно, насколько того требует их относительная важность, включая различные семейства, которые внесли вклад в создание породы рысаков; вопрос о том, как разводят рысистых лошадей, тщательно рассматривается в свете всего прошлого опыта и доведен до конца 1896 года. Эти главы не удивят старых читателей «Ежемесячника Уоллеса», поскольку они встретят здесь много мыслей, которые не будут для них новыми, но они найдут их более полно проработанными, в более упорядоченной форме и доведенными до новейшего опыта.
Цель этой книги не в том, чтобы предоставить статистические таблицы, охватывающие огромную массу рысистого опыта, и не в том, чтобы рассматривать тайны искусства тренера, которые были так умело обсуждены опытными и искусными людьми. Но реальная и единственная цель состоит в том, чтобы зафиксировать результаты лет, посвященных историческим исследованиям, дома и за рубежом; развеять иллюзии и обманы, которые окружали лошадь на протяжении многих веков; и рассмотреть с некоторой тщательностью, которая по необходимости не может быть беспристрастной, великую промышленную революцию, которая произошла в коневодстве, и всё это выросло из небольшого непритязательного трактата, написанного двадцать пять лет назад, который не содержал ничего более поразительного, чем немного науки и немного здравого смысла, разумно смешанных вместе. Битва между принципами этого трактата и эгоистичными предрассудками и умственной стерильностью была долгой и ожесточенной, но истина восторжествовала, и в производстве лошади для драйвинга учения той небольшой статьи поставили нашу страну на первое место среди всех наций земли.
ДЖОН Х. УОЛЛЕС.
Нью-Йорк: 40 Уэст 93-я стрит.
September 1, 1897
СОДЕРЖАНИЕ.
PAGES
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION.
General View of the Field Traversed 1-23
CHAPTER II.
ORIGINAL HABITAT OF THE HORSE.
No indications that the horse was originally wild—The steppes of High Asia and Arabia not tenable as his original home—Color not sufficient evidence —Impossibility of horses existing in Arabia in a wild state—No horses in Arabia until 356 A.D.—Large forces of Armenian, Median and Cappadocian cavalry employed more than one thousand seven hundred years B.C.—A breed of white race horses—Special adaptability of the Armenian country to the horse—Armenia a horse-exporting country before the Prophet Ezekiel—Devotion of the Armenian people to agricultural and pastoral pursuits through a period of four thousand years—All the evidences point to ancient Armenia as the center from which the horse was distributed 24-35
CHAPTER III.
EARLY DISTRIBUTION OF HORSES.
First evidences of horses in Egypt about 1700 B.C.—Supported by Egyptian records and history—The Patriarch Job had no horses—Solomon’s great cavalry force organized—Arabia as described by Strabo at the beginning of our era—No horses then in Arabia—Constantius sends two hundred Cappadocian horses into Arabia A.D. 356—Arabia the last country to be supplied with horses—The ancient Phœnician merchants and their colonies—Hannibal’s cavalry forces in the Punic Wars—Distant ramifications of Phœnician trade and colonization—Commerce reached as far as Britain and the Baltic—Probable source of Britain’s earliest horses 36-50
CHAPTER IV.
THE ARABIAN HORSE.
The Arabian, the horse of romance—The horse naturally foreign to Arabia —Superiority of the camel for all Arabian needs—Scarcity of horses in Arabia in Mohammed’s time—Various preposterous traditions of Arab horsemanship—The Prophet’s mythical mares—Mohammed not in any sense a horseman—Early English Arabians—the Markham Arabian—The alleged Royal Mares—The Darley Arabian—The Godolphin Arabian—The Prince of Wales’ Arabian race horses—Mr. Blunt’s pilgrimage to the Euphrates—His purchases of so-called Arabians—Deyr as a great horse market where everything is thoroughbred—Failure of Mr. Blunt’s experiments—Various Arabian horses brought to America —Horses sent to our Presidents—Disastrous experiments of A. Keene Richards—Tendency of Arab romancing from Ben Hur 51-66
CHAPTER V.
THE ENGLISH RACE HORSE.
The real origin of the English race horse in confusion—Full list of the “foundation stock” as given by Mr. Weatherby one hundred years ago—The list complete and embraces all of any note—Admiral Rous’ extravaganza—Godolphin Arabian’s origin wholly unknown—His history—Successful search for his true portrait—Stubbs’ picture a caricature—The true portrait alone supplies all that is known of his origin and blood 67-78
CHAPTER VI.
THE ENGLISH RACE HORSE (Continued).
England supplied with horses before the Christian era—Bred for different purposes—Markham on the speed of early native horses—Duke of Newcastle on Arabians—His choice of blood to propagate—Size of early English horses—Difficulties about pedigrees in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—Early accumulations very trashy—The Galloways and Irish Hobbies—Discrepancies in size—The old saddle stock—The pacers wiped out—Partial revision of the English Stud Book 79-89
CHAPTER VII.
THE AMERICAN RACE HORSE.
Antiquity of American racing—First race course at Hempstead Plain, 1665—Racing in Virginia, 1677—Conditions of early races—Early so-called Arabian importations—The marvelous tradition of Lindsay’s “Arabian”—English race horses first imported about 1750—The old colonial stock as a basis—First American turf literature—Skinner’s American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine, 1829—Cadwallader R. Colden’s Sporting Magazine, short-lived but valuable—The original Spirit of the Times—Porter’s Spirit of the Times—Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times, 1859—Edgar’s Stud Book—Wallace’s Stud Book—Bruce’s Stud Book—Their history, methods and value—Summing up results, showing that success has followed breeding to individuals and families that could run and not to individuals and families that could not run, whatever their blood 90-107
CHAPTER VIII.
COLONIAL HORSE HISTORY—VIRGINIA.
Hardships of the colonists—First importations of horses—Racing prevalent in the seventeenth century—Exportations and then importations prohibited—Organized horse racing commenced 1677 and became very general—In 1704 there were many wild horses in Virginia and they were hunted as game—The Chincoteague ponies accounted for—Jones on life in Virginia, 1720—Fast early pacers, Galloways and Irish Hobbies—English race horses imported—Moreton’s Traveler probably the first—Quarter racing prevailed on the Carolina border—Average size and habits of action clearly established—The native pacer thrown in the shade by the imported runner—An Englishman’s prejudices 108-119
CHAPTER IX.
COLONIAL HORSE HISTORY—NEW YORK.
Settlement of New Amsterdam—Horses from Curaçoa—Prices of Dutch and English horses—Van der Donck’s description and size of horses—Horses to be branded—Stallions under fourteen hands not to run at large—Esopus horse—Surrender to the English, 1664—First organized racing—Dutch horses capable of improvement in speed—First advertised Subscription Plate—First restriction, contestants must “be bred in America”—Great racing and heavy betting—First importations of English running horses—Half-breds to the front—True foundation of American pedigrees—Half-bushel of dollars on a side—Resolutions of the Continental Congress against racing—Withdrawal of Mr. James De Lancey—Pacing and trotting contests everywhere—Rip Van Dam’s horse and his cost 120-127
CHAPTER X.
COLONIAL HORSE HISTORY—NEW ENGLAND.
First importations to Boston and to Salem—Importations from Holland brought high prices—They were not pacers and not over fourteen hands—In 1640 horses were exported to the West Indies—First American newspaper and first horse advertisement—Average sizes—The different gaits—Connecticut, first plantation, 1636—Post horses provided for by law—All horses branded—Sizes and Gaits—An Englishman’s experience with pacers—Lindsay’s Arabian—Rhode Island, Founded by Roger Williams, 1636—No direct importations ever made—Horses largely exported to other colonies 1690—Possibly some to Canada—Pacing races a common amusement—Prohibited, 1749—Size of the Narragansetts compared with the Virginians 128-134
CHAPTER XI.
COLONIAL HORSE HISTORY—PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, MARYLAND, CAROLINA.
Penn’s arrival in 1682—Horse racing prohibited—Franklin’s newspaper—Conestoga horses—Sizes and gaits—Swedish origin—Acrelius’ statement—New Jersey—Branding—Increase of size—Racing, Pacing and Trotting restricted—Maryland—Racing and Pacing restricted 1747—Stallions of under size to be shot—North Carolina—First settler refugees—South Carolina—Size and gait in 1744—Challenges—No running blood in the colony, 1744—General view 135-141
CHAPTER XII.
EARLY HORSE HISTORY—CANADA.
Settlement and capture of Port Royal—Early plantations—First French horses brought over 1665—Possibly illicit trading—Sire of “Old Tippoo”—His history—“Scape Goat” and his descendants—Horses of the Maritime Provinces 142-153
CHAPTER XIII.
ANTIQUITY AND HISTORY OF THE PACING HORSE.
The mechanism of the different gaits—The Elgin Marbles—Britain becomes a Roman province—Pacers in the time of the Romans—Bronze horses of Venice—Fitz Stephen, the Monk of Canterbury—Evidence of the Great Seals—What Blundeville says—What Gervaise Markham says—What the Duke of Newcastle says—The amble and the pace one and the same—At the close of Elizabeth’s reign—The Galloways and Hobbies—Extinction of the pacer—The original pacer probably from the North—Polydore Virgil’s evidence—Samuel Purchas’ evidence—The process of wiping out the pacer—King James set the fashion—All foreign horses called “Arabians”—The foreigners larger and handsomer—Good roads and wheeled vehicles dispensed with the pacer—Result of prompting Mr. Euren—Mr. Youatt’s blunder—Other English gentlemen not convinced there ever were any pacers 154-171
CHAPTER XIV.
THE AMERICAN PACER AND HIS RELATIONS TO THE AMERICAN TROTTER.
Regulations against stallions at large—American pacers taken to the West Indies—Narragansett pacers; many foolish and groundless theories about their origin—Dr. McSparran on the speed of the pacer—Mr. Updike’s testimony—Mr. Hazard and Mr. Enoch Lewis—Exchanging meetings with Virginia—Watson’s Annals—Matlack and Acrelius—Rip Van Dam’s horse—Cooper’s evidence—Cause of disappearance—Banished to the frontier—First intimation that the pace and the trot were essentially one gait—How it was received—Analysis of the two gaits—Pelham, Highland Maid, Jay-Eye-See, Blue Bull—The pacer forces himself into publicity—Higher rate of speed—Pacing races very early—Quietly and easily developed—Comes to his speed quickly—His present eminence not permanent—The gamblers carried him there—Will he return to his former obscurity? 172-189
CHAPTER XV.
THE AMERICAN SADDLE HORSE.
The saddle gaits come only from the pacer—Saddle gaits cultivated three hundred years ago—Markham on the saddle gaits—The military seat the best—The unity of the pace and trot—Gaits analyzed—Saddle Horse Register—Saddle horse progenitors—Denmark not a thoroughbred horse 190-195
CHAPTER XVI.
THE WILD HORSES OF AMERICA.
The romances of fifty years ago—Was the horse indigenous to this country?—The theories of the paleontologists not satisfactory—Pedigrees of over two millions of years too long—Outlines of horses on prehistoric ruins, evidently modern—The linguistic test among the oldest tribes of Indians fails to discover any word for “Horse”—The horses abandoned west of the Mississippi by the followers of De Soto about 1541 were the progenitors of the wild horses of the plains 196-204
CHAPTER XVII.
MESSENGER AND HIS ANCESTORS.
Messenger the greatest of all trotting progenitors—Record of pedigrees in English Stud Book—Pedigrees made from unreliable sources—Messenger’s right male line examined—Flying Childers’ “mile in a minute”—Blaze short of being thoroughbred—Sampson, a good race horse—His size; short in his breeding—Engineer short also—Mambrino was a race horse with at least two pacing crosses; distinguished as a progenitor of coach horses and fast trotters—Messenger’s dam cannot be traced nor identified—Among all the horses claiming to be thoroughbred he is the only one that founded a family of trotters—This fact conceded by eminent writers in attempting to find others 205-221
CHAPTER XVIII.
HISTORY OF MESSENGER.
Messenger’s racing in England—His breeder unknown—Popular uncertainty about the circumstances and date of his importation—The matter settled by his first advertisement—Uncertainty as to his importer—Description of Messenger by David W. Jones, of Long Island—Careful consensus of descriptions by many who had seen Messenger—His great and lasting popularity as a stock horse—Places and prices of his services for twenty years—Death and burial 222-231
CHAPTER XIX.
MESSENGER’S SONS.
Hambletonian (Bishop’s) pedigree not beyond doubt—Cadwallader R. Colden’s review of it—Ran successfully—Taken to Granville, N. Y.—Some of his descendants—Mambrino, large and coarse in appearance—Failure as a runner—Good natural trotter—His most famous sons were Abdallah, Almack, and Mambrino Paymaster—Winthrop or Maine Messenger and his pedigree and history—Engineer and the tricks of his owners—Certainly a son of Messenger—Commander—Bush Messenger, pedigree and description—Noted as the sire of coach horses and trotters—Potomac—Tippoo Saib—Sir Solomon—Ogden Messenger, dam thoroughbred—Mambrino (Grey)—Black Messenger—Whynot, Saratoga, Nestor, Delight—Mount Holly, Plato, Dover Messenger, Coriander, Fagdown, Bright Phœbus, Slasher, Shaftsbury, Hotspur, Hutchinson Messenger and Cooper’s Messenger—Abuse of the name “Messenger.” 232-254
CHAPTER XX.
MESSENGER’S DESCENDANTS.
History of Abdallah—Characteristics of his dam, Amazonia—Speculations as to her blood—Description of Abdallah—Almack, progenitor of the Champion line—Mambrino Paymaster, sire of Mambrino Chief—History and pedigree—Mambrino Messenger—Harris’ Hambletonian—Judson’s Hambletonian—Andrus’ Hambletonian, sire of the famous Princess, Happy Medium’s dam 255-266
CHAPTER XXI.
HAMBLETONIAN AND HIS FAMILY.
The greatest progenitor in Horse History—Mr. Kellogg’s description, and comments thereupon—An analysis of Hambletonian, structurally considered—His carriage and action—As a three-year-old trotter—Details of his stud service—Statistics of the Hambletonian family—History and ancestry of his dam, the Charles Kent Mare—Her grandson, Green’s Bashaw, and his dam 267-283
CHAPTER XXII.
HAMBLETONIAN’S SONS AND GRANDSONS.
Different opinions as to relative merits of Hambletonian’s greater sons—George Wilkes, his history and pedigree—His performing descendants—History and description of Electioneer—His family—Alexander’s Abdallah and his two greatest sons, Almont and Belmont—Dictator—Harold—Happy Medium and his dam—Jay Gould—Strathmore—Egbert—Aberdeen—Masterlode—Sweepstakes—Governor Sprague, grandson of Hambletonian 284-314
CHAPTER XXIII.
MAMBRINO CHIEF AND HIS FAMILY.
Description and history of Mambrino Chief—The pioneer trotting stallion of Kentucky—Matched against Pilot Jr.—His best sons—Mambrino Patchen, his opportunities and family—Woodford Mambrino, a notable trotter and sire—Princeps—Mambrino Pilot—Clark Chief—Fisk’s Mambrino Chief Jr.—Ericsson 315-320
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE CLAYS AND BASHAWS.
The imported Barb, Grand Bashaw—Young Bashaw, an inferior individual —His greatest son, Andrew Jackson—His dam a trotter and pacer—His history—His noted son, Kemble Jackson—Long Island Black Hawk—Henry Clay, founder of the Clay family—Cassius M. Clay—The various horses named Cassius M. Clay—George M. Patchen—His great turf career—George M. Patchen Jr.—Harry Clay—The Moor, and his son Sultan’s family 321-337