Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1889-11-01


where, analogous to the Arabian.
Orloff is horse weighing 1900 pounds,
long body, very strong in general build,
and fully l6 hands high, a beautiful bay,
with black points, heavy name and tail
black as a crow, and we never remember
seeing but one or two fashionably
bred Hambletonians with a limb as
heavy as his. His motion is very fine.
but not faultless ; he has beautiful long
stride, easy gait, rapid, quick gatherer,
indicative of the very important fact that
under no circumstances would he need
any toe-weghts, or boot protection i'm
any of its multifarious, expensive forms.
His forward action is high, too high in
our opinion for very fast trotting. All
his movements are very natural, indicat-
ing that the horse to all intents and pur-
poses is a born trotter, and, notwith-
standing, he lifts his forward feet too
high to suit us for rapid mover, yet he
does not pound the ground, but his foot
falls on terra firma with an ease and
grace that is wonderful. We have seen
horses that did not weigh 800 pounds that
struck the ground with more force than
he does.
orloii has every appearance of kind,
docile disposition; his eye possesses that
expressive, sweet mildness that makes
him the pet of the lover of good horse
at once, and his face and head possess
the peculiar elements of formation and
shape that make you say in moment.
as soon as you see him, ''there is no du-
plicity in that horse, no malevolence. or
hypocricy; he has in every inch of him a
pure minded, high toned mental construc-
ton, horse that will be pleasure to
educate, because of the ease and aptness
OF his perceptiye qualities, he can learn
anything in the province of instinct. and it
may become things beyond that region"
think the Introduction of the Orloff
family, If carefully and properly crossed,
may become great pecuniary blessing,
not on account of his superior speed
qualities, but on account of his size,
strength and very open gait, very like
the pure Clay, but more quick gatherer,
and utterly without that slow gathering
movement that almost always attaches
itself to very open gated horse, making
it sometimes very tedious and expen-
sive task to educate him up to the STAN
dard, where his owner can be benefited
by his long. far-reaching stride-because
he now strides very long, and very quick
y too. If the Russians can breed horse
with very long and at the same time
rapid stride, we can.
Mr.. Howland's Orloff is making a very
fine impression upon the public mind,
that will originate intelligent methods
of breeding in that direction, and the
eyes of other wealthy breeders (if they
deem it polite) will turn Russia-ward
for an increase of new blood, the infu-
sion of which may enable us some
time to cope with Russia in speed. How
foolish the breeders of Liverpool to
book one of their very best mares. and
rum the risk of sea-voyage to obtain
the blood of our American scrubs" and
pay such prices, 900 for a mongrel
American trotter. when they must know
that our horses have no accumulation
blood" in their veins, unless perchance Il
stray drop that has Numbered across the
Atlantic from Place and Markham's
White Turk, GodolOphin, Darley's Ara
ban, or Diomed, and not single drop
of abstract pure Arabian blood was ever
found in England, or any where else.
After the above specified horses were
crossed with the "Royal mares" from
Tangiers and in 1909, about four veais
after Place and Markham's White Turk
had been imported, Mr.. Markham him
self, the best living authority in all Eng
land on the horse at that time, without
saying one word commendatory of his
own horse under his own signature,
writes THAT the English horse of that
day was probably a cross between the
Flanders and llungarans."
In writing up horse history we should
not studiously or carelessly leave the
public eye without stating frankly, fair
ly, and squarely the inherent invested
septs of the dams of that day, to very
great share of the glory often given alb
stractedly TO Godolophin, Darley's Ara
bian or Diomed.
Let true light come from any source
in horse-history, and we will gladly &C
cept it but let us not "darken council
by words without knowledge"
As we looked upon Leopard with
mingled emotions of pride and gratitude
to the Pasha of Turkey for his great
kindness and muniticent gift of the beau
tiful gray (now almost white) Arabian
horse, and then linked this thought with
the grand glorious hero of Appomatox
whose almost unearthly meekness and
generosity on that great accession has
led North and South, alike. to lovingly