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conventional in action, except the only trotting-horse 

 in action I ever saw of his, and that was one of a bay 

 horse called Nonpareil, at speed which is almost as good 

 in action as Maurer's horses. It used to be on exhibition 

 in Jermyn Street, at the art shop in the corner. The 

 horse looks like a Morgan and, I am sure, was not English 

 bred. 



"The Russian artist, Schvetskoff, was a very good 

 painter of trotters in action, next best to Maurer. I 

 have an engraving, at present stored where I cannot 

 unpack it for the moment, of the Emperor Alexander I. 

 behind a black Orloff stallion, going at a 2 mins. 40 sees, 

 gait. All the Emperors of Russia were keen about trotting, 

 and used single and pairs fit to trot at Parsloes Park, which 

 is more than can be said of Lenin and Trotsky, who have 

 killed good horses because they are ' bourgeois.' 



" I hear that Krepitz, the first Orloff to trot in 2 mins. 

 9 sees., is the last victim to be killed by these devils. 



"Walter Winans." 

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It has given me great pleasure to write this book amidst 

 my everyday practical work. A treatise written under 

 these conditions should prove more interesting. When 

 a man is actually demonstrating and proving his theories 

 in practice he possess! j more profound knowledge than 



