-,, "GENERAL BEALE" " HEGIRA," "ISLAM," 



that in order to create the type pure and to be recognized as strictly 

 thoroughbred it must be under one man's control, or until so numerous 

 and fixed in its type as to remain so. In that particular I can sympa- 

 thize with Count Orloff. I will here speak of my individual self in my 

 attempts. Men knowing the burden I was financially carrying, and 

 desiring to help me without putting their hands into their own pockets, 

 would urge me to sell, bringing friends to buy the very choicest of my 

 stock, which had just reached an age ior reproduction, and which, being 

 close bred to purification, were my life in the enterprise. Such gentle- 

 men, while they intended well, would ruin me through an uninformed 

 attempt to assist, or become angry because I would not destroy, as they 

 suggested, through sale. 



After the imperial government of Russia had purchased the Count 

 Orloff family, — now sufficiently numerous to produce liberally, — they 

 continued to hold annual sales of young or surplus stock, the govern- 

 ment being surety for purity in blood and breeding. 



For interesting information upon this question I refer the reader to 

 Mr. A. J. Rousseau's publication upon the methods pursued by Count 

 Orloff in breeding and founding this justly-celebrated "national trot- 

 ting-, road-, and coach-horse." This horse is so bred, and is so intensely 

 Arabian, that, like imported Messenger (which was three times inbred 

 to the Godolphin Arabian), it will cross with any class of horses, im- 

 proving the family it is crossed upon. 



The Orloff is himself a superior coach-horse, an untiring stage- 

 horse, and a whirlwind of trotting speed for road or sporting purposes. 



During our Grand Central Circuit Meeting (trotting), a few years 

 since, some, then recently imported, Orloff stallions were exhibited 

 upon the track here at Rochester, New York. I examined them care- 

 fully in the boxes, and found them the counterpart of old Andrew 

 Jackson and his best son, Henry Clay. In physical conformation they 

 were identical with the get of Jackson and Clay, also in color and dis- 

 position. When shown at speed upon our track, I heard many farmers 

 remark that it was a fraud to show them as Russian horses, for they 

 were only Clays ! 



I have now introduced the reader to three typical " national horses," 

 each one representing a nation independent and powerful in resources 

 and wealth, also advanced in the arts and sciences from cultured and 

 refined civilization. Each nation had resorted to the Arabian horse 

 from which to create ; and, with national pride or independence, no one 

 had obtained his foundation from the mongrelizations of the other, but 



