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low financial estate, who has presumed to know more than himself. 

 Ao-ain, certain classes of journalists are a fearful obstacle to rapid 

 progress. They are but weather-cocks of public opinion ; but, being 

 men, are warped by the almighty dollar, with neither information nor 

 interest at stake upon success or failure of any great enterprise beyond, 

 as I have said, the money for their pen and type to themselves. 



I have said enough about the English race-horse to have shown that 

 he is of Arabian origin, and of no value except to run races. To breed 

 him up, or to sustain his vitality, no blood can be introduced but his own 

 primitive blood of the Arabian. To breed him down, makes the English 

 nobility's "dung-hill," or American gentleman's road- and coach-horse, 

 for such as like to ride behind them. 



I have abundantly shown that both the English race-horse and the 

 French Percheron were created by man from the God horse, or Arabian. 

 It is no sacrilege to say God's horse, for He made the Arabian, from 

 which man made the mongrels. 



Let us now go to Russia and inquire into their national horse. 

 It is called the " Russian Orloff trotting-horse." This horse should be 

 an argument for the American people. Russia, like America, is a vast 

 territory, and has use for general purpose horses such as have speed 

 at the trotting gait and can endure for long distances. They, too, as 

 a people, wanted what they had not got for work purposes, and particu- 

 larly the road. They tried the English running-horse, only to prove 

 to themselves, as have we, that he was of no good except to run 

 races. 



It seems unfortunate that individuals should be called upon to fight, 

 single-handed, battles for important improvements through rediscov- 

 eries or inventions, but that is God's will. 



To Count Alexis Orloff is due the Russian trotting-horse bearing 

 his name. The count imported an Arabian stallion, and by him created 

 a type, through in-and-in breeding after his first out-cross. Do not 

 understand by first out-cross as one single get, but from selections from 

 all the get by one horse out of differently bred mares. Thus, Count 

 Orloff used Danish mares of low type and English running mares, that 

 blood being at that time strongly the affinity or Arabian blood. 



At the time of Count Orloff' s death he had a family of thorough- 

 bred trotting-bred horses, which the people had learned to value so 

 highly that the government purchased the entire collection late in the 

 forties, or in 1845. 



Up to the time of the count's death he would sell no stallion, feeling 



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