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Daniel Lambert and a typical Morgan, standing a little over fifteen hands 

 high and weighing about nine hundred and fifty pounds. 



At still another interview, Mr. Dupuis said : " I think the first foal of 

 Louis Dansereau's young black pacing mare was a bay trotter. Louis Dan- 

 sereau bred about twelve foals from this mare ; not more than three before I 

 was married, February yth, 1820. I am not sure that she had had more than 

 one colt at that time, probably the Vassar Horse. 



" Louis Dansereau thought that the old black mare that he bought at 

 Montreal was in foal when he got her, but she was not, and he bred her that 

 season to the Fiset Horse and got the black pacing mare. I think this mare 

 was four or five before she had a colt and seven or eight when she had the 

 Vassar Horse by the Duhamel Horse. She had foals every year or every 

 other year. I was nine years old when my father died. My mother 

 married again in 1809 and from that time I lived with my step-father, 

 Louis Dansereau, until my own marriage ; after that I worked for him every 

 year. The old black mare that Mr. Dansereau got in Montreal was all black, 

 large, about fifteen hands high, a very good low heavy mare ; both paced and 

 trotted. The young mare was all black with fine body, taller than her 

 mother, and a much finer mare. Had to have double lines on her to drive 

 her. She carried her head high and had a good breast. The Vassar Horse was so 

 gentle a lady could drive him ; a perfect beauty. Most of the stallions from 

 this mare pulled ; all wanted to go. I was married before I ever went to a 

 race. There were but few horses here that raced when I was young except 

 Dansereau's. He did not race until after he got the pacers. He raced with 

 the young black mare. He went as far as Belceil, St. Hyacinthe, St. Charles. 

 I did not know of Morgan or Dutch horses. I think the Duhamel stallions 

 were the first fast pacers here. The Gravelin Horse of St. Ours was white and 

 red [roan], a pacer, over fifteen hands high, a fine horse. Danse- 

 reau and he had races together. [This must have been with Jeanne 

 d'Arc.] The Duhamel horses were about the same kind ; there were a large 

 number of horses from both. I think I was married the year the Vassar 

 Horse was born. The Fiset Horse was red or bay, fifteen hands high, //// 

 beau cheval, strongly built ; owned by Pierre Fiset, and was five or six 

 years old when the old black pacing mare was bred to him. The black mare 

 bought at Montreal was from the States close by, probably from Vermont". 



M. Chapdelaine of St. Ours, born 1809, said: "Duhamel had two 

 horses, a black and a gray ; they were pacers. I saw pacers before but not so 

 fast. The black was a good horse, well made. (Le noir ctait un bon cheval 

 Men fait.) He would trot, too ; a good roadster. A man named Le Blanc 

 had some pacers or trotters, about the same time, that came from the Du- 

 hamel Horse. I was twenty-five or thirty years old. The gray Duhamel 

 horse was younger than the black. Recollet of Sorel bought the black one 

 of Allaire, who bought of Duhamel. I might have been fifteen. I remem- 

 ber his pacing on ice and he was the fastest horse here. The Gravelin Horse 

 was older than the Duhamel Horse and fast, but not as fast. He was roan, 

 not higher than the Duhamel Horse, but broader and heavier, with wider 



