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Imported Trakehner coach stallion VIRGIL. Black horse with brown 

 muzzle, 16 hands high. Foaled 1887. Weight 1,275 pounds. Bred by 

 W. Gerlach, Walterkehmen, Prussia. Imported by Jacob Heyi, of Mil- 

 waukee, Wisconsin, in 1890. 



Russian Orloff stallion WZMAKH, record 2:26*4. Gray horse, 16 

 hands high. Foaled 1887. Bred by S. DeBeauvais, Rogojkinow, Gouv- 

 ernement Pensa, District of Mokshansk, Russia. Imported by Jacob 

 Heyl, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1892. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE TRAKEHNER COACH HORSE. 



THIS BREED of coach horses, developed under the patronage of the Prus- 

 sian government, includes among its representatives horses that for gen- 

 eral use exhibit a high standard of excellence. They possess the substance 

 required in a weight pulling coach horse and with it much of the quality which 

 reflects a high order of breeding. The outline of the best type illustrates a 

 high order of perfection for a coach horse ; while the advantage of large size 

 with good bone adds greatly to their weight pulling qualities. In color these 

 horses are with rare exception bright bays with few if any markings. Though 

 typical coach action has not been made a feature of their breeding, as in the 

 instance of some of the other breeds of coach horses, yet it is a characteristic 

 which should be in evidence in any show ring containing a display of this class. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE ORLOFF TROTTER. 



THE ORLOFF trotter, being the national horse of Russia, has been de- 

 signed largely by government direction to meet the many demands which 

 are made upon a horse of general utility. They should be expected to show 

 the quality which would be required in any light horse frequently subjected to 

 severe tests of endurance and strength of structure. The type is one smoothly 

 moulded with muscle, strong in all its parts and yet not unduly coarse, while 

 at the same time not being so finely constructed as to detract any from its 

 general strength. Being vigorous, they possess an abundance of ambition, and 

 associated with this there is a compactness and general unity of structure 

 which makes them good wearers under work. It is not expected that a horse 

 of this type would have the ability to trot as fast as one showing a higher 

 and more special construction, but it is proper to look for that type which 

 would be adapted for covering long distances with the least fatigue. 



