St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-18
The Or1off Trotter.

double teams, with certain rate of
speed. He is expected back in few
days.
The Orloff TrOtter.
Turf, Field and Farm.
Mr.. Al. Rousseau of st. Petersburg con-
tributes to the London Live Stock Journal
short sketch of the Orloff trotter. In
TIT Count Alexis Orlof, being too heavy to
ride in the saddle, turned his thoughts to
the production of horse which would draw
him faster in harness than anything at that
time to be found in Russia. He bought in
the south of Greece silver white Arabian
stallion called Smetanka, and used him one
season in the stud, getting, in addition to
one filly, four colts, three of which were
| out of English mares. One of these STALL
ions was crossed with a Dutch mare, and
BarsS, who is recognized as the founder of
family, was thus produced:
Having got the stamp of horses he wanted
| he gave all his attention to training them
Early in the morning the count could be seen
| followed by six or eight black-and-tan English
| terriers, jogging along toward poultry run
containing some 100 game fowls, which I have
a very good reason to think were not kept for
the production of fine-favored eggs only, as
two sets of steel spurs and two sets of spar
ring gloves for fowls (nOw in my possession)
can prove. RevenOnS a nos mOutOnS: Having
fed his fowls he would have his horses out on
the course, sometimes driving himself, but
more often he would watch and time them
personally. He trained both for speed and
for endurance; he generally tested them by
heats of 400 feet each, registering the sec
onds each time. He woul& send them at tip
top pace the whole distance, then walk them
back again He would do this four times with
the same horse; this he considered the best
iy,j,, 10 not OIL no of
his horses. For stamina he would trot them
from 10 to Is English miles at one stretch;
stations and mares went under the same
training.
The speed shown by the horses was not
great, for otherwise they could not have
been sent ''at tip-top pace the whole dis
tance." But even with only slow horses to
handle, how long do you suppose Gen. John
e. Turner would have remained with Count
0rloff to carry out the system of training
described by Mr.. Rousseau? Just about
two hours. The Orloff trotter cannot for
moment be compared to the American trot-
ter, and one reason for his infeTiOrity is
that the Russians are not good trainers,
while they know nothing about how to rig
horse for speed. Their harness and We
hicles are too clumsy for rapid work. Dur
ing his lifetime Count Orloff never sold
stallion; but in 1s45 his entire stud was
purchased by the government, and, through
the sale of the surplus stock, the breed has
been scattered all over the Russian empire.
PaIo Alto Notes.
A day at Palo Alto is described in the
California Spirit of the Times and from it
we CLEAN few items of interest. Wild
flower, two-year-old record 2:21, has "a
beautiful colt by her side'' Beautiful Belle
is nursing foal, and of her yearling, which
was seen in harness, we are told that she is
as speedy as he is beautiful, " and that Mai.
Rathborne regards him ''as the fastest
young trotter ever turned loose in the trot-
ting paddocks." The journalist did not
seem to like the yearling by Electioneer
out of Midnight, the dam of Jay Eye See.
'.He is a great big, lathy brown fellow,
without much of what we call quality, and
while he may develop into speedy trotter,
there are a good many others of the same
age that we should give him the go-by
for" Your lathy colt often rounds
into a horse of symmetry, and then you
wonder how you could have sighted him as
youngster Let us hope that such will be
the future of the last son of Midnight.
Electioneer frequently is hitched to ''com-
mon business buggy" and driven on the
road for exercise. Piedmont is little low
in flesh. and it is remarked that his second
crop of foals have more size and substance
than the first. Sallie Benton, four-year-old
record 2:17$4, was seen on the track with
Marvin behind her. and ''she moved as lin
Der as an eel.' Kinda Rose was also seen
on the track, moving in good style. 'sBut
the colt that captured our affections was the
Dame Winnie colt, that trotted last year at
the Bay District as a two-year-old in
2:234. This colt has the most perfect ac-
tion that we ever saw. 1t is the very poetry
of motion. He moves with the precision and
ease of oiled machinery. We saw him
move quarter with apparent ease in SIS
seconds, and it is safe to say that as
three-year-old, he hasn't his equal in the
world" Dame Winnie, the dam of this
great three-year-old is a thoroughbred
mare. daughter of Planet Gov. STAN
ford appears to be well equipped for an
Eastern campaign. The greatest. interest
will center in the battles which REPRESENTA-
tives of his stable will be called upon to
fight at Lexington in October
Mfsce llaneOus.
Mr.. Joseph H. Wiggin of Manchester, N.