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mont, where he had been raised. On this occasion the 

 whole town turned out, with a brass band, to welcome 

 him home, and there was a procession through the 

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

 ness, "kept time to the music, and was the proudest 

 creature that ever walked on earth." 



The Lambert horses are very distinctive — high- 

 headed, high-spirited, high-stepping. They are apt to 

 have poor legs, being especially light of bone just below 

 the knee — a defect which they inherit from Fanny 

 Cook; but their speed, carriage, and action more than 

 atone for this defect. "A man can live two or three 

 years In twenty minutes, driving a horse like that!" I 

 once heard a fur-clad New England enthusiast exclaim 

 as, with a jingle of bells and a clattering of hoofs on 

 the floor, his Lambert mare dashed into the stable after 

 an hour or two of impromptu racing on the snowpath. 

 Daniel Lambert Is rated as a "Broodmare Sire," and 

 Lambert mares figure prominently In the pedigree of 

 many fast trotters. 



Another place where Morgan blood has made a 

 strong Impression Is among the saddle-bred horses of 

 Kentucky. These horses are noted for their beauty, 

 style, and docility, qualities which. In great measure, 

 they have derived from the Morgan horses that were 

 brought to Kentucky very numerously In the first half of 

 the nineteenth century. 



However, notwithstanding the valuable qualities of 

 the Morgan family, the number of pure-bred Morgans 

 was fast diminishing until, in the year 1909, the Mor- 

 gan Horse Club was formed In Vermont. The mem- 



