THE AMERICAN HORSE. I3I 



make the produce sure, which it takes the uninitiated 

 a long time to find out, and which many American 

 breeders have not yet discovered." 



Then those who, tired of experiments, have begun 

 to follow out certain inevitable laws in mating, are 

 those who have met with success? 



" Yes, and proud of it they may well be ' They 

 alone have saved the vanishing reputation of the 

 American trotter." 



Do we not export our trotting-horses^ 



'*Once in a while a phenomenal trotter with a 

 wide reputation is sent over to the other side ; but 

 they are not exported as a type, or to take the first 

 place in a stud of thoroughbreds, although they are 

 universally admired." 



But only lately the Czar of Russia asked Governor 

 Stanford for an exchange of trotting mares with his 

 Russian Orloffs. Would not both countries be 

 mutually benefited by such an exchange? 



" If fine trotting mares are sent from America the 

 Czar may get the best of the bargain, or as a Russian 

 saying goes, 'He will have the hatchet, and we shall 

 get the handle." " 



Are the Orloffs trotters? 



" Yes, madam, but their gait is very different 

 from that of the American trotter. When the Orloff 

 trots he leaves always a certain distance between his 

 hind and fore-legs The American trotter throws his 

 hind legs ahead of his fore-legs at every step, his 

 hind legs being of abnormal length. The step of 

 the Orloff is more graceful, inherited directly from 

 the best of the Turcoman horses." 



