loo The Trotting and the Pacing Horse 



The most prepotent of his sons was Daniel 

 Lambert, a chestnut horse foaled in 1858; bred 

 by William H. Cook, of Ticonderoga, New York, 

 and dam Fanny Cook, a handsome and highly 

 organized chestnut mare by Abdallah (son of Mam- 

 brino), sire of Rysdyk's Hambletonian ; second 

 dam by Stockholm's American Star by Duroc by 

 imported Diomed. Daniel Lambert was a shade 

 under 15.2, and he had elasticity of gait as well as 

 good form and carriage. When four months old 

 he passed to John Porter, and later was owned in 

 succession by R. S. Denny, Benjamin Bates, and 

 David Snow. As a three-year-old Dan Mace 

 drove Daniel Lambert a mile in 2.42, but other- 

 wise the speed of this stallion was not developed. 

 He died June 29, 1889. The fastest of the 38 

 trotters sired by him was Comee, 2.19J, winner 

 of 26 races. The two best producing sons 

 of the 35 sires by Daniel Lambert were Ben 

 Franklin out of Black Kate by Addison, son 

 of Vermont Black Hawk, and Aristos, whose 

 blood, like Ben Franklin's, is breeding on. Sixty- 

 two of the daughters of Daniel Lambert are dams 

 of speed. Fanny Cook also produced, in i860, to 

 Ethan Allen, the bay horse Woodard's Ethan 

 Allen, whose register number is 473, and among 



