, 1877-04-29
THE TURF.

MORE ABOUT TUE oRLoFFs.
In last Sundays issue OF this paper the fact
! relating to a proposed shipment OF OrloG trotte,
to this country were given, and at the time til
article containing them was written it was though
that The news of the horses shipment would b
| received In few days, but up to tho present lin
| the matter remains in statn quo, and. In view q
| the unplcasantncss In which Russia Is involved,
IL possible that the animals may not be forwarded
| They are four in numocr,-three stations and
mare, c,-and belong to Captain in the Russian army
the pronunciation Of whose name would he nj
pastime for an American citizen on Sunda,
morning, and in consequence It IL omitted. As
number OF apocryphal stories relative to the speef
OF the Orlo trottcrs hare been circulated by those
Ettcrtng frauds the sporting journals, The TnlE
USE has hcen ut some pains to investigate the mat
ter, and has arrived at the conclusion that. II all
tnat the admirers Of this breed Of horses claim be
true It's best representatives about equal to
American trottcr Of the :,::23 class.
In the first place, it must be remembered that a
ycrst, the standard by which all races in ltussia
measured, is equal to American half mile.
The performance to which the Russians
point with the greatest pride. in much the
came manncr that Americans do to the
Maids mile In ,o:14, was when an 0rlotf
trotter Of the hignest TYPE did four vcrsts
two miles in Ave mlnutcs-a $50 clip.
In regard to the weight OF a droschka, some
xery ,,y absurd notions have gained ground in
vehicle. most people Imagine that 1t is heavy and
hard to draw. On the contrary. those used for
trottlng purposes weigh but seventy pounds, about
thirty pounds less than the ordinary skelefon-
wagon used in this country. Two miles in i've
minutes to droschka, then, Is the best Russian per-
formauce, and it vas beaten in this country fifteen
years ago, when trottng was almost in its in
tfancy. 1t Is well known that American trotters
have never been trained to pull weight
to Gng Ws sat the Rnsas
In view of tho fact that IN American trotting-
wagon is considerably heavier than a droschka. it
shoud cefy able to eep as s ace
for Two miles. drawing seventy pound vehicle, as
an American horse could for one mile. drawing 100
sition that the horses are equal in point OF endur
ance and speed. AS before stated, the best Rus
sian performance is two miles in i've minutes, OF
mile in 2:30 This would be, crcditablc perform
ance even for IN american horse, but nothing
extraordinary. In 1874, Judge Fullerton trottcd
three heats to wagon, over the track at San
that completely o1eerth!ows tic two mics
And M to shoT thet FallettSn i nct The
forflance of the Chicago horse, Dodinc, at sacra-
nento. one week ago Yesterday, Is referred to. he
winning The second, third, and fourth heats OF .
winning heats was a:s4, 2:2as1, :33a.
hut even at two-mile heats America is ahead,
her horses drawing 100 pounds to the orloff's TO-
In 1861 Gen. Butler trotted the first heat Of a |
two mile race to wagon over the Long Island |
track in 4:abA,-3ai seconds faster than the Rus
sian horses performance at the eamc distance; and
IN 1865, over the same track, Dexter repeated the
[cat: and SO great horse was he on that day that
his driver, Hiram Woodruff. IN published ac-
count Of the race said that the brown horse could
hare finished the heat in 4:;'0.
At three mile heats. the lussans are still fur
her eclipsed by The Americans, the IIunttess.
,y Volunteer, having r1otted three miles to har-
IN f1rn mil 1,nfu