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miles or even more and are measured in versts. 

 Much racing is also done on the ice, and while 

 the Orloff is somewhat plain according to our 

 ideas of .trotting conformation and his action 

 would not be popular in this country, he is 

 nevertheless a real trotter in every way worthy 

 of the name. 



THE. COACHERS. 



When we speak of a coacher or coach horse 

 we refer to a horse well suited to pull a coach. 

 But we have no coaches in these days, as we 

 once had, and if we will look at all closely into 

 the matter we will find that with the negligible 

 exception of the Cleveland Bay not one of the 

 breeds we now call coachers was developed with 

 the object of pulling a coach. This is a rather 

 anomalous state of affairs, but the condition is 

 nevecrtheless as stated. Among the hills in the 

 English county of York the Cleveland Bay 

 actually at one time did yeoman service in haul- 

 ing the heavy mail coaches, but there the coach 

 connection stops. "War has been the ruling mo- 

 tive in the production of all the other breeds of 

 coachers as we know them in this country today. 

 It was to supply remounts for the army that 

 the French government began the nationaliza- 

 tion of its horse-breeding business. It was war 

 that induced the establishment of the different 

 strains of coach hoirses in Gennany. The ob- 

 ject in both cases was to obtain a remount that 



