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inferior in beauty to his sire or grandsire. He was a 

 chestnut, with mane and tail some shades lighter, the 

 mane being very silk}', and the tail long, wavy, and 

 well carried. This peculiar coloring of two shades of 

 chestnut is still very common in the Lambert family, 

 and, seen at its best, nothing could be more striking or 

 picturesque. The Lamberts are apt to be a little hot- 

 headed, but they are intelligent, docile when properly 

 treated, very spirited, speedy, and courageous. Per- 

 haps it would be no exaggeration to say that the finest 

 gentlemen- s roadsters bred in this country have been 

 of Lambert stock. Daniel Lambert himself was a 

 horse of commanding style and of magnificent carriage. 

 For many years he was kept in the vicinity of Boston, 

 but late in life he was brought back to Middlebury. 

 Vt.j where he had been raised. On this occasion all 

 the inhabitants turned out with a brass band to wel- 

 come him home, and there was a procession through 

 the village streets. " The old horse," relates an eye- 

 witness of the scene, " kept time to the music, and was 

 the proudest creature that ever walked on earth." 



I have mentioned the pacer as one source of trotting 

 speed. Why he should be such is a problem much dis- 

 cussed, and not yet solved, although an important sug- 

 gestion on this subject has been contributed by Hark 

 Comstock. 1 He conjectures that the pacing gait is 

 apt to result when thoroughbred horses are first crossed 

 with ordinary mares; and he shows that pacers have 

 been common in those parts of the country where this 

 condition obtained. Moreover, there is. I believe, no 

 case where a very fast trotter has come from pacing 



1 Norn de guerre of Mr. Peter C. Kellogg, au original and in- 

 structive writer on the trotting horse. 



