THE ORLOFF TROTTER, BELLFOUNDER AND THE ENGLISH HACKNEY.
Orloffs, the only foreign trotters of merit—Count Alexis
Orloff, founder of the breed—Origin of the Orloff—Count Orloff
began breeding in 1770—Smetanka, Polkan, and Polkan’s son,
Barss, really the first Orloff trotting sire—The Russian
pacers—Their great speed—Imported Bellfounder—His history
and characteristics—Got little speed—His descendants—The
English Hackney—Not a breed, but a mere type—The old Norfolk
trotters—Hackney experiments in America—Superiority of the
trotting-bred horse demonstrated in show ring contests 390-408