CARRIAGE HORSES AND COBS. 197 
tonian sire. The Hambletonian gait is a long, wide, 
distinctly trotting gait. But Pamlico’s dam was a 
Morgan, of the Lambert family, and he derives his 
showy action from her. Some of the best carriage 
horses and cobs in the world have been bred in much 
the same way that Pamlico is bred. 
I will state some examples. Fifty years ago there 
was a big horse in Franklin County, Maine, called the 
Eaton horse... He was a sorrel, and he weighed 1,450 
pounds. Like Rysdick’s Hambletonian, he was a 
long-striding, lumbering beast, and most of his de- 
scendants resembled him in these respects: they 
were fast, but sluggish, and poor roadsters. How- 
ever, crossed with small, high-stepping Morgan mares, 
the Eaton horse produced no less than three fine 
families of carriage horses, cobs, and roadsters, one 
of which attained distinction on two continents and 
in three countries. 
The first of these families was that of Flying Eaton, 
a handsome bay horse standing about 15} hands, and 
weighing about 975 pounds. Flying Eaton inherited 
the high action of his dam. He had a beautiful 
arched neck, a heavy but fine mane, a tail well carried, 
a short back, with that slight graceful downward 
curvature of the spine which is a feature of the Arab 
formation. Despite his excessive knee action, his 
motions were easy and elastic; and he was a cour- 
ageous, tireless roadster. Flying Eaton had great 
intelligence and one intellectual quality which is 
frequent in the dog, but less common in the horse, 
namely, a sense of humor. 
1 He was sired by the Avery horse, and he by Bucephalus, a big 
chestnut horse supposed to be a grandson of Messenger. The dam 
of the Eaton horse was also said to be a Messenger. 
