FUNfeRAL HORSES 67 



trotting powers and which had probably a good deal to 

 say to the formation of the old Norfolk roadsters. Polkan's 

 Danish dam is described as having been a strong, large- 

 boned animal ; and Barss, as a muscular horse with elegant 

 trotting action. Count Alexis had at his stud in 1/72, 

 the following varied assortment of animals : 



Arab ... 12 stallions and 10 mares. 



Persian 3 2 ,, 



English . . 20 ,, 32 



Dutch . . i 8 



Danish i ,, 3 ,, 



Mecklenburg i ,, 5 ,, 



Miscellaneous 9 ,, 17 ,, 



As might be expected from their breeding, the Orlof 

 trotters are of no distinctive type, and are divided into heavy 

 and light trotters. The majority of them indicate the pos- 

 session of vulgar relations by their large and hairy fetlocks, 

 fiddle heads and goose rumps. The cart strain as usual 

 comes out in the head, legs and setting on of the tail ; and 

 the Eastern blood, in the body. Fig. 17 shows an Orlof 

 trotter of fair harness type though not of high class. With 

 inherited trotting faculty, long legs, and light and short body, 

 many of them can trot at a great pace, but they are poor 

 stayers. They admirably suit the requirements of fashionable 

 Russians, who love to go as fast as their coachmen can drive 

 them, even over the roughest cobble stone pavement, which 

 of course does not suit the big fetlocks. They rarely stand 

 more than a couple of years of this kind of work, and then 

 they gradually descend towards the cab rank. As a rule, 

 ordinary carriage horses of this blood stand over 15.3, and 

 are black. The entires of this colour are exactly like the 

 funeral horses which are imported into England. As subjects 

 for illustrations I have taken chiefly grey horses ; because that 



