Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1893-09-08

the Clyde. His crest is high, too high to
please the lover of thoroughbreds, shcul-
ders well sluped, deep through the heart,
with only slight decrease of measure
ment at the loins. His fore legs have
great muscular development, the elbow
being of extraordinary breadth and well
hattened. The stine appears to be the
least assertive point of his underpinning
and Is, Ia fact. less suggestive of power
than of rounded grace. There is an easy
tapering from the elbow to the knee,
which is clOse-knit, rather large and fiat.
On the front of the knee there grows
tuft Of white. silky hair, about two
inches hong, and this is one of the high
points in Judging the strain. 1t is quite
uniQNe, aud, it must be admitted, serves
only to adorn where custom makes the
rule. The fetlocks are thin, white and
just reach the heel There is no long
growth at the back of the cannons, such
as the Clytles have. The hoof is round
aad wel-shaped, the heel broad, the
cCronet rather high, the head is clear
cut, eyes wide apart, ears small and
pointed. Verbovschik has trotted a
nsile, less ten yards, IN 2:l0.
1 radnik is a black stallion, fourteen
years old, and except as to color and
lack of the knee tuft, is the counterpart
Of the preceding. He has also trotted
mile, less than ten yards, in , 40.
Yssau is a snow-white stallion, four
teen years old, and while less compact
than either V,rbovschik or Uriadnik, is
of the heavy trotter class. He has the
highly-prized black skin. which gives Il
steel-colored appearance to the fine coat,
so that he might be mistaken for gray
at little distance. 1t were easier to
praise him in toto than to describe in
detsil the excellence of his anatomy. His
quarters are the most pronounced Of any
of his class; the STILES well in line y ith
the middle of the hoof; hooks strongly
muscled, and of good slant. His should
ers are set back at Il low angle; the fore
arm punched with firm muscle, and very
fiat fran elbow to knee. The crest is
/ high, and the name of great length and
dneness. The foretop is probably six
inches long and not so thick as to hide
the broad, flat brow. Yssau has been
driven by the Emperor of Russia ia single
harness. He is thoroughly gentle and
well hammered, and might re handled by
Il boy of ten years.
Bezpodobny and Bezotretnaik are
black colts, respectively two and three
years old, and are by Bedouine Jr., son
of Bedouine, who took the government
prizes for this class at Paris in 1867.
They are without marks and handsome
as can be. This pair, and a long, racy.
white mare, five years old, named lima.
@il ultimately find fresh pastures at
Palo Alto stock Farm.
a large bay stallion, krakus. is Capt.
d'ismailoff's particular pet. This fellow
reminds one of the wei-known plate of
Hambletonian 10, which represents the
great sire and his owner, VIM. NJ.
! Rysdyk, in box stall. But, as the
captain conceded, the resemblance
closes when the Group is reached, for
while Krakus drops with marked abrupt
ness, Hambietonian carried the vertebrate
line by grand curve TO the very root of
of the tail. Nevertheless, there is a
striking similarity of ensemble between
the quick and the dead. Krakus has
IIambletonian's massive shoulders, large
head, Roman nose and length of body.
He stands square. has dignified de-
meanor, and, as also stated, recalls the
American horse in more than one line.
Zenid and Chistiak, gray stations, four
and five years old, are Orlofi light trot
tiers, from the government stud. They
come nearer to our own trotting stock
than do the heavy trOtters, but even
these are of a different conformation.
Arab blood is strong in their veins and
asserts itself Enthusiastically. The head,
Beck back, name, tail-all these are
clearly of Arabian Inheritance, and until
a pure-blood be seen would be mistaken
for the desert stock by nine persons in
ten. They are about 1872 hands, and
weigh perhaps 800 lbs. in fair condition.
Triatel and Tried, black colts. are
Orloff saddlers, three and four years old.
Their pedigrees for l25 years are regis
tered. The blood in their veins is Arab
IAN and thoroughbred. crossed and re.
crossed, but never adulterated. In APP
pearance they suggest power, but not
speed. They have good length, back
somewhat high, flanks thin, legs straight
and rather short. These fellows are the
only ones that have banged tails. They
were bred at the stud of II. |. II. the
Grand Duke Dimitry Constantlnovich.
Peter |. had an eye to the improve
ment of horses, as he had to the inn
provement of everything else in Russia,
and so it was that he imported lot of
draught mares from Holland and had