to the horse Piedmont because of his record of 2 :i7'4> the product was a failure at 

 trotting speed in the mare Rosemont (foal of 18831 ; but Rosemont, bred back to the 

 blood of her dam, in the dam of Electioneer, at once shows and proves that blood 

 will tell when records fail, as the product, Mont Rose, equals and even beats a trifle 

 her sister in blood, Hinda Rose. 



"The phenomenal three-year-old filly 'Fantasy,' record of 2:08^4, is interbred 

 to Arab blood through Clay; her sire being interbred to Neave's Clay, through Clay 

 Pilot and Harry Clay and her dam, also of Clay blood. 



From " Rider and Driver," February 25, 1893, article by Mr. Randolph 

 Huntington : 



"Through Henry Clay (The Americo-Arab) we had the Cassius M. Clay family, 

 the Patchen family and the Clay Pilot family, all in the male line. In the female 

 line descending from Henry Clay, we have the Wilkes family, a union of which blood 

 with the Clay Pilot family gave us the famous Corbitt and Salisbury trotters and 

 pacers in California 



"On the Pilot side (also Americo-Arab bred) we have the Pilot family from which 

 came Maud S., Jay-Eye-See, Nancy Hanks and Miss Russell, with old Waterwitch, 

 the Nutwood family, also Dictator Prominence." 



When Count Orloff Began Breeding the Russian 

 National Horse, the Orloff. 



The Orloff breed of coach and trotting horses derived their name from their 

 founder, Count Alexis Orloff, who lived when Catherine the Great was Empress of 

 Russia. He began in the year 1777 when he bought in the south of Greece an 

 Arabian stallion, Smetanka, for 6,000 roubles (assignates), which is equal to 

 1,714 pounds sterling. 



Thoroughbred Arabian of the Saclavi class of the Koelani breed, Smetanka 

 was a fine animal and strongly built. He was two archives two and one-half 

 vershoks high (fifteen hands or one meter 5240 . He was used one season only 

 at the stud and died in 1778, leaving only four colts and one filly. Smetanka 

 had two ribs more than ordinary horses, as can be seen by his skeleton, which 

 is still kept in the Orloff museum. The four colts and one filly secured by Smet- 

 anka were from Anglo-Arab mares; the grey stalHon Polkan out of a big, 

 strong Isabel Danish mare. Polkan was next crossed with a big, strong Dutch 

 mare (Harttraber), the result of which was the celebrated Barss, who combined 

 the blood, muscle, power of endurance and temper of Smetanka, the size of the 

 Danish mare, and the shoulder action of the Dutch mare. 



Barss is considered the all-important factor in the creation of the great 

 Russian Orloffs (trotters and coach horses). He was foaled in 1784 and died 

 in 1808. Barss left eleven stallions, four of which left no progeny. Count Or- 

 loff did not begin inbreeding for some time ; he continued pouring in fresh blood, 

 always through Anglo-Arab mares, thus producing the celebrated trotters Do- 

 broi, Lubesnoi and Lebed. Inbreeding began with the produce of these last 

 horses, but later on he introduced more Anglo-Arab blood through the dams; 



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