530 THE PEOPLE'S FARM AND STOCK CYCLOPEDIA. 



speed are regulated by law, and a violation of the rules will land 

 the culprit in Siberia without much delay. The time made by 

 the Orloff trotters does not equal that of the American trotters. 



BEST RUSSIAN TIME UP TO 1874. 



One mile, 2.31 



Two miles, . 5.01f 



Three miles, 7.52 



Five Miles, 13.56f 



Twenty miles, 68.53 



BEST AMERICAN TIME PRIOR TO 1874. 



One mile, . . 2.14 Difference, . . 00.17 sec. 



Two miles, . . . 4.50^ Difference, . . OO.ll^sec. 



Three miles, . . 7.21J Difference, . . 00.31} sec. 



Five miles, . . . 13.00 Difference, . . . 00.56f sec. 



Twenty miles, . . 58.25 Difference . . 10.28 sec. 



The Orloff trotters lack in campaigning power, or the Rus- 

 sian does not know how to groom and handle them. 



The oldest Orloff winner is twelve years, while Goldsmith 

 Maid was in her prime at twenty, and most of our great trot- 

 ters steadily improve until twelve to sixteen years old. 



The Russian trotters seem to have attained the maximum 

 of their powers several years since, while the American is still 

 lowering his record, and since the days of Boston Blue, the 

 first trotter making a mile in three minutes, the time has been 

 gradually lowered, until Maud S. and Jay-Eye-See have nearly 

 reached 2.10, and their owners confidently expect the record 

 of 1884 to go down to 2.08. The Russians claim that the Or- 

 loff trotter has more style and finish than the American trotter. 

 But this is not granted by Americans who have seen both. In 

 colors they surely do not excel our trotters, and in speed they 

 can not compare, nor in lasting energy and long usefulness. 

 Some one has classified their winners by color, which shows 

 fifty-five per cent of grays, twenty-four per cent blacks, four- 

 teen per cent bays or browns, and six per cent light bays. 



The elements of blood and power are found in the American 

 trotter in such high excellence as to place them at the head of 



