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duce was a horse known as Polkan 1st. From 

 a union of this half-blood with a Dutch mare 

 sprang a stallion known as Bars 1st, who is 

 generally regarded as the progenitor of the 

 Orloff race of trotters. The fame of this quar-~ 

 ter-blood, Bars 1st, was chiefly perpetuated 

 through his sons Lubeznay 1st, Lebed 1st and 

 Dobroy 1st. 



It is worthy of special note that we have an 

 almost exact parallel of the course of breeding 

 which laid the foundation for the Orloff trot- 

 ting horse in the case of the imported Barb, 

 Grand Bashaw, a grey stallion imported to the 

 United States from Tripoli by Mr. John C. Mor- 

 gan. This horse got Young Bashaw (also grey), 

 out of Pearl by First Consul, and he in turn got 

 Andrew Jackson, out of a mare of unknown 

 blood. It will be observed that the Russian 

 trotter Bars 1st and Andrew Jackson were each 

 three removes from their Oriental ancestry, and 

 that in this third remove the trotting excellence 

 first began to manifest itself. Bars 1st laid the 

 foundation for the Orloff trotting horse, and 

 was himself a distinguished trotter; Andrew 

 Jackson was the most noted trotting stallion of 

 his day, and from him are descended the Ba- 

 shaw, Patchen and Clay trotters of the present 

 time. We have no positive knowledge as to 

 the breeding of the Danish mare, the dam of 

 Polkan 1st, or of the Dutch mare that produced 



