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mate, and he was, I believe, the first horse to be driven 
in that somewhat ridiculous fashion. ‘The manner 1S, 
to provide strong breeching covered with sheepskin, 
and to make the traces of the runner shorter than 
those of his mate. The runner thus pulls the trotter 
along, very much as a boy is pulled by a wagon when 
he * cuts behind,” and hangs on to the tail-board. 
Ethan Allen’s record in single harness is 2.254. 
This discrepancy of 10} seconds between his record 
with and his record without a running mate is greater 
than it should be, and is probably due chiefly to the 
fact that his hind legs were faulty, his hocks being 
somewhat weak, and his pastern joints too long and 
delicate, so that he could not maintain his speed except 
for a short distance. These defects he inherited from 
his dam. One who knew the horse well wrote of him: 
“He works with the least possible waste of motion. 
His stride is as precise as the stroke of a pendulum, 
and so true does he carry his body, so graceful his 
head and neck, and so animated his carriage, that he 
seems to ‘light up’ all over, aud presents a most per- 
fect, sylph-like form of elegance.” 
The best son of Ethan Allen was Daniel Lambert, 
who became the most distinguished progenitor of trot- 
ters that has appeared in the Morgan family. His 
dam was Fanny Cook. a chestnut, and a daughter of 
Abdallah, son of Messenger and sire of Rysdyck’s 
Hambletonian. Thus in Daniel Lambert the Messen- 
ger and Morgan strains were united, and this combina- 
tion has since produced many fast trotters.1_ In Daniel 
Lambert disappeared the faulty conformation that 
Ethan Allen inherited from his dam, and he was not 
1 Notably Jack, 2.12}, and Pamlico, 2.163. 
