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formers. He was kept several seasons in Kansas and died there 

 September, 1876. 



DANIEL LAMBERT, 102, was a chestnut horse, foaled 1858; got 

 by Ethan Allen, 43; dam Fanny Cook, by Abdallah; grandam by 

 Stockholm's American Star, etc. His color was a light chestnut, 

 and his mane and tail were of the yellow, flaxen shade. He was 

 about fifteen hands high and long and light in the body, with no 

 indications of Morgan blood about him unless it was in the 

 kinkiness of his mane and tail. But why should he not resemble' 

 almost anything else than the little nondescript Morgan, when 

 he had only one-sixteenth of his blood in his veins? He had 

 more Messenger than Morgan blood, and according to the rules of 

 arithmetic it is a misnomer to call him a Morgan. More than 

 this, his dam was a daughter of the great Abdallah, far and away 

 the greatest trotting sire of his generation. When we consider 

 that he had four times as much of the blood of Abdallah as he 

 had of the original Morgan, we can see the absurdity of sticking 

 to the right male line after that line has been wiped out by other 

 lines far more potential. Lambert was bred by Mr. John Porter 

 of Ticonderoga, Xew York, and as a colt he showed great promise 

 on the ice, and was thought to be the fastest and best of the get 

 -of Ethan Allen. He was known far and wide as the "Porter 

 Colt," and he was the popular heir to very great expectations. 

 To have created so much enthusiasm he must have shown great 

 .speed for a youngster, and he is credited with a record of 2:42 as 

 a three-year-old. As a sire of trotters he stood very high at one 

 time and was even with Blue Bull in his number of representa- 

 tives in the 2:30 list, but in the end the little "plebeian" pacer 

 outstripped him a long way. Lambert put thirty-seven trotters 

 into the 2:30 list, but when we come to study this list we are not 

 very favorably impressed, for about one-third of the animals have 

 but a single heat inside of the mark, with only five or six reputa- 

 ble campaigners and a single one Comee that ranked among the 

 real good ones. Comee had seventy-one heats to his credit and a 

 record of 2:21-^. Thirty-three of Daniel Lambert's sons have put 

 one hundred and thirty-six in the list, and forty-four of his 

 daughters have produced seventy-four performers. 



