American turf register and sporting magazine . t,and Colonel Howards chestnut mare,celebrated for the great feat she per-formed, by beating eleven horses,which started against her at New-market, in 1728, for the kings dam was got by the AlcasterTurk; grandam by Leedss Arabian,out of a daughter of Old won many plates. Places White Turk.—Thishorse was the property of Mr. Place,stud groom to the usurper, OliverCromwell; he was sire of the OldThornton mare, Mr. Crofts Com-moner, Wormwood, &c. He got thegreat-grandams of Old Scar, Wynd-ham. Crutches, Old Cartouch, andseveral
American turf register and sporting magazine . t,and Colonel Howards chestnut mare,celebrated for the great feat she per-formed, by beating eleven horses,which started against her at New-market, in 1728, for the kings dam was got by the AlcasterTurk; grandam by Leedss Arabian,out of a daughter of Old won many plates. Places White Turk.—Thishorse was the property of Mr. Place,stud groom to the usurper, OliverCromwell; he was sire of the OldThornton mare, Mr. Crofts Com-moner, Wormwood, &c. He got thegreat-grandams of Old Scar, Wynd-ham. Crutches, Old Cartouch, andseveral others. The Holderness Turk.—TheHolderness Turk was sire to thecelebrated stallion, called HartleysBlind Stallion, which was the sire ofMiss Neesham, and various othereminent racers, stallions, and broodmares; he was out of Sir Ralph Mil-banks famous black mare, whichwas supposed to be the best andliighest bred in England, and got byMakelass, son of the Oglethorpe Ara-bian, out of a DArcey royal mare.—[Browns Sketches of Horses. V X. AMERICAN TURF REGISTER AND Vol. II.] AUGUST, 1831. [No. 12. ON THE MANAGEMENT OF BROOD MARES. Mr. Editor: Davidson Co. Tenn. June, 1831. The queries of Juvenis are published on page 538, vol. i. Tlieanswers of Crofts are announced, on the cover of the SeptemberNo. to appear in the No. then next following. They have not yetappeared, and, among the multiplicity of communications, have beenoverlooked or mislaid. No one breeder will probably furnish an-swers satisfactory to all the questions. With a hope that others maysupply the result of their experience, the following is the result of mypractice, observations and inquiries. It should be premised, that planting and raising horses for labouris my main business; that breeding for the turf is, with me, a second-ary matter, and managed on a small scale, though, as I think, in asystematic way. My labouring mares, all of which are half bred ormore, are fed like the geldings, and plough to within a fe
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