January 1, 1870
Zlynski Stud Foundation
The stud (lately named Zlynski) was founded in early 1870 by passionate lover of horses, a councilor of State, Vasily Nikolaevich Telegin. The stud had moved twice, till in 1903 it finally settled in the village Zlyn of Zlynsky volost of Bolhovsky district of the Oryol province. It remains here nowadays.
Vasily Telegin began the rearing of trotters of Orlovskaya breed. He was the vice president of Orel society of hunters’ horse racing for more than ten years and leaved it in 1900. His son Nikolay Vasilevich became the head of this society and it was him, who was fated to make the glory of rising Zlynski stud.
N. Telegin held the reins himself many times on the Oryol hippodrome and he noticed that despite all advantages of the Oryol trotter, it yields in speed to lean and fast standardbred American horses. So he suggested the idea to cross these two breeds.
Two American standardbred stallions – Baron Rogers (it was bought in 1890) and Bob Douglas (it was bought in 1910) – became the ancestors of new breed – Russian trotter. These names are memorable to all experts and historians of the Russian horse breeding.
N. V. Telegin was quite a good businessman and he developed his business on a large scale. By 1914 there were 7 stallions and 93 dams in his horse farm, and the annual litter was about 80 heads. They had been sold well in capitals. But the main sources of the income were prizes that stud’s horses won in different races. That money allowed to build up and equip the stud and estate at the high level.
After the October Revolution Telegin’s manor was nationalized. Horses and equipment were divided between the peasants who ate or killed almost all elite horses in hard works. Only a few survived.
Vasily Telegin began the rearing of trotters of Orlovskaya breed. He was the vice president of Orel society of hunters’ horse racing for more than ten years and leaved it in 1900. His son Nikolay Vasilevich became the head of this society and it was him, who was fated to make the glory of rising Zlynski stud.
N. Telegin held the reins himself many times on the Oryol hippodrome and he noticed that despite all advantages of the Oryol trotter, it yields in speed to lean and fast standardbred American horses. So he suggested the idea to cross these two breeds.
Two American standardbred stallions – Baron Rogers (it was bought in 1890) and Bob Douglas (it was bought in 1910) – became the ancestors of new breed – Russian trotter. These names are memorable to all experts and historians of the Russian horse breeding.
N. V. Telegin was quite a good businessman and he developed his business on a large scale. By 1914 there were 7 stallions and 93 dams in his horse farm, and the annual litter was about 80 heads. They had been sold well in capitals. But the main sources of the income were prizes that stud’s horses won in different races. That money allowed to build up and equip the stud and estate at the high level.
After the October Revolution Telegin’s manor was nationalized. Horses and equipment were divided between the peasants who ate or killed almost all elite horses in hard works. Only a few survived.