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witnesses speak truly, ‘‘could not trot fast enough to go to mill.” 
From Black Hawk comes the Ethan Allen family, the General Knox 
family, and other less prominent lines. This trotting line reaches its 
highest plane in the family of Daniel Lambert, son of Ethan Allen. 
Daniel Lambert must be ranked little inferior as a producer of speed 
to any horse that ever lived. He is still alive, though over thirty 
years of age, and has the distinction, since the death of Happy Me- 
dium, of having to his credit more trotters with records of 2:30 or 
better than any horse now living. His family has undoubtedly suf- 
fered through injudicious crosses. Had his blood been better re- 
inforced with the Hambletonian strain, supplying certain essentials 
which in itself is lacking, grander results would have been produced. 
It is important to note that Daniel Lambert’s dam was a daughter of 
Abdallah, the sire of Rysdyk’s Hambletonian, and from this fact, 
coupled with the knowledge that he is infinitely a better horse than 
his sire, and moreover far better than any horse of his family, the 
reader can draw his own conclusion es to what influence his dam ex- 
erted in making him what he is. 
The other broken and scattered groups descended from Black 
Hawk need not be noticed in detail, all being of minor importance. 
Now If have briefly outlined the origin of the four chief trotting 
families—the Hambletonians, the Mambrino Chiefs, the Clays, and 
the Black Hawks. Of course I have left innumerable minor lines 
untouched, but I can not well complete a sketch of the principal 
elements entering into the trotting blood of to-day without touching 
upon the-groups of families of pacing origin. In attempting to set 
aside and classify the families of pacing origin by themselves one 
can but approximately draw the line of demarcation, for it can not 
positively be asserted just to what extent pacing blood is intermixed 
in the foundation lines of trotting blood. We can not assert posi- 
tively that Hambletonian and Mambrino Chief did not carry pacing 
blood, for might it not have been carried in the one case through 
the unknown dam of Mambrino Chief, in the other through the un- 
known dam of Abdallah? I do not say it is probable; I only point 
the possibility. That the Clay family had a pacing strain is pretty 
generally admitted; that the Black Hawk family carried the blood 
of the Canadian horse is strongly probable; so thatin grouping the 
chief families of pacing origin together, I can not say that none other 
than these had pacing strains, but can say that the trotting strains 
now to be considered certainly proceeded from known pacing foun- 
tains. 
It is useless to discuss the origin of the pacing gait. for even as 
horses trotted and as horses galloped so horses paced at a period 
‘‘whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.” On 
the frieze of the Parthenon at Athens the hand of the sculptor left 
time-defying evidence that the pacer was known in Greece when she 
was atthe zenith of her glory, four hundred years before the Christian 
era. The bronze horses of St. Marks in Venice were cast (probably 
about the beginning of the Christian era) in the pacing attitude. Dur- 
ing the Roman régime in Britain we are told the ambulatara was 
‘‘perhaps the universal and traveling pace of the Romans.” itz 
Stephen, a monk of Canterbury, writing in the twelfth century, tells 
us that at Smithfield, then a suburb of London, on Fridays ‘* shows 
were held of well-bred horses exposed for sale,” and he adds that it 
was ‘“‘pleasant to see the nags, with their smooth and shiny coats, 
smoothly ambling along.” In 1558, Master Blundeville, one of the 
