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being of good size in proportion to weight of body. His hind leg is 

 fairly straight, but the lower part is joined to the hock at something 

 of an angle, giving it the conformation found in many speedy trotters. 

 His pasterns are short and strong, feet well shaped, and of size in 

 proportion to that of body and limbs. By common consent the 

 Morgans have enjoyed the reputation of being the most beautiful 

 horses, as a family, ever produced on this continent, and Lambert, 

 when in his prime, was one of the most beautiful of that family. Few 

 horses have ever lived that possessed greater power of stamping 

 their offspring with the above characteristics, and imparting the 

 ability to perpetuate them through succeeding generations". 



He was sold, when four months old, to John Porter, Ticonderoga, 

 New York, for three hundred dollars. R. S. Denny of Boston paid 

 three thousand dollars for him when he was coming five, and kept 

 him at Watertown, Massachusetts. He sold him to Benjamin 

 Bates, who sent him to the Cream Hill Stock farm, Shoreham, Ver- 

 mont, then under the management of A. C. Harris, where he made 

 his first season in 1866. Previously he had been used but little for 

 stock purposes. He remained at Shoreham doing an increasing busi- 

 ness through the season of 1877, when, upon the death of Mr. Bates, 

 he went to the Bates farm at Watertown, Massachusetts. In the fall 

 of 1880 he was sold to David Snow of Andover, Massachusetts, and 

 in the fall of 1884, to a company at Middlebury, Vermont, and kept at 

 the Bread Loaf Stock farms, Middlebury and Weybridge, Vermont, 

 until his death, June 29th, 1 889. He was in vigorous health and without 

 blemish to the day preceding his death. It is understood that he was 

 mated with over one thousand and forty mares while at Shoreham, but 

 the number of foals is not known. We understand that the number got 

 in Massachusetts was not large. After returning to Middlebury he got 

 about thirty. Had Lambert remained in Vermont, we think his list of 

 trotters would have been doubled. And had the effort been made to 

 develop his colts, which has been made with the get of many noted 

 trotting sires, time records being admitted, we are confident that his 

 two-thirty list could have been increased to several hundred. The 

 speed of Lambert was never developed, yet he was a natural trotter. 

 As a three-year-old Dan Mace drove him a winning race at Chelsea, 

 Massachusetts, October 22d, 1861, and gave him a record of 2 142. It 

 is said that after this race Mr. Mace offered to trot him against any 

 three-year-old in the world for five or ten thousand dollars. 



We quote again from Mr. Parlin : "Mr. Denny, when he 

 bought Lambert, took him to Saratoga, New York, under the name 



