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inferior in beauty to his sire or grandsire. He was a 
chestnut, with mane and tail some shades lighter, the 
mane being very silky, and the tail long, wavy, and 
well carried. This peculiar coloring of two shades of 
chestnut is still very common in the Lambert family, 
and, seen at its best, nothing could be more striking or 
picturesque. The Lamberts are apt to be a little hot- 
headed, but they are intelligent, docile when properly 
treated, very spirited, speedy, and courageous. Per- 
haps it would be no exaggeration to say that the finest 
gentlemen’s roadsters bred in this country have been 
of Lambert stock. Daniel Lambert himself was a 
horse of commanding style and of magnificent carriage. 
For many years he was kept in the vicinity of Boston, 
but late in hfe he was brought back to Middlebury, 
Vt., where he had been raised. On this occasion all 
the inhabitants turned out with a brass band to wel- 
come him home, and there was a procession through 
the village streets. ‘The old horse,” relates an eye- 
witness of the scene, “kept time to the music, and was 
the proudest creature that ever walked on earth.” 
I have mentioned the pacer as one source of trotting 
speed. Why he should be such is a problem much dis- 
cussed, and not yet solved, although an important sug- 
gestion on this subject has been contributed by Hark 
Comstock.! He conjectures that the pacing gait is 
apt to result when thoroughbred horses are first crossed 
with ordinary mares; and he shows that pacers have 
been common in those parts of the country where this 
condition obtained. Moreover, there is, I believe, no 
case where a very fast trotter has come from pacing 
' Nom de guerre of Mr. Peter C. Kellogg, an original and in- 
structive writer on the trotting horse. 
