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tonian sire. The Hauibletonian gait is a long, wide, 

 distinctly trotting gait. But Pamlico's clam was a 

 Morgan, of the Lambert family, and he derives his 

 showy action from her. Some of the best carriage 

 horses and cobs in the world have been bred in much 

 the same way that Pamlico is bred. 



1 will state some examples. Fifty years ago there 

 was a big horse in Franklin County, Maine, called the 

 Eaton horse. 1 He was a sorrel, and he weighed 1,450 

 pounds. Like Kysdick's Hambletonian, he was a 

 long-striding, lumbering beast, and most of his de- 

 scendants resembled him in these respects : they 

 were fast, but sluggish, and poor roadsters. How- 

 ever, crossed with small, high-stepping Morgan mares, 

 the Eaton horse produced no less than three fine 

 families of carriage horses, cobs, and roadsters, one 

 of which attained distinction on two continents and 

 in three countries. 



The first of these families was that of Flying Eaton, 

 a handsome bay horse standing about 15-^ hands, and 

 weighing about 975 pounds. Flying Eaton inherited 

 the high action of his dam. He had a beautiful 

 arched neck, a heavy but fine mane, a tail well carried, 

 a short back, with that slight graceful downward 

 curvature of the spine which is a feature of the Arab 

 formation. Despite his excessive knee action, his 

 motions were easy and elastic; and he was a cour- 

 ageous, tireless roadster. Flying Eaton had great 

 intelligence and one intellectual quality which is 

 frequent in the dog, but less common in the horse, 

 namelv, a sense of humor. 



1 He was sired by the Aver}- horse, and he by Bucephalus, a big 

 chestnut horse supposed to be a grandson of Messenger. The dam 

 of the Eaton horse was also said to be a Messenger. 



