No trotting family has ever bred to a type in all branches and generations so perfectly as that founded by Justin Morgan. In Ethan Allen the type was believed to have reached its acme, but it was reserved for one of his sons to show that "Nature could yet farther go." Ethan was, perhaps, a paragon -- but in Daniel Lambert the peculiar excellencies of the Morgans attained a still higher degree of perfection and produced a still greater horse. His beauty was a natural legacy from his sire. That he proved a greater stallion was undoubtedly due to his dam. On the maternal side Ethan Allen was lacking, but Daniel Lambert had for a dam Fanny Cook, daughter of Abdallah, the sire of Rysdyk's Hambletonian, while his grandam was by Stockholm's American Star, the reputed sire of Seely's American Star -- which stout and proven strains, mingled with his Morgan blood, served as its best complement and resulted in the production of a stallion who combined, to a remarkable degree, most of the virtues and few of the faults of each. Ticonderoga, New York, where his sire first saw the light, was also Daniel Lambert's birth-place. He was bred by William H. Cook, and was foaled in 1859. In color he was a chestnut sorrel, rather light, with a blonde mane and tail, and in height lacked but a fraction of an inch of being 15 ½ hands. He had his sire's peculiarly shaped hind leg, but otherwise of the same beauty and elegance, only one carried to a still more exquisite degree of refinement and symmetry, his head being as fine as an Arab's, with large full eyes, his neck long and graceful and his bodily lines well-nigh perfect, while in deportment and carriage he was quite matchless. His natural speed was of a high order, and his three-year-old record of 2:24, in 1861, was the fastest then on record by a stallion of his age. It was made in his only race, for what promised to be a brilliant racing career was ruined by a hasty blow of the whip, which he never forgot nor forgave. His first regular stud season was made in 1866 at Shoreham, Vermont, where he continued in service for eleven years. Thence he was taken to the Bates Farm, at Watertown, Massachusetts; thence, in 1880, to Andover, in the same state, where he made four seasons. In 1884 he became the property of a stock company and was placed at the stud in Vermont, at Bread Loaf Farms, Middlebury and Weybridge, where he died June 29, 1889, aged thirty-one. Daniel Lambert was without question the greatest of New England sires. He got, in all, thirty-seven list trotters, many of them celebrated campaigners, and the majority from mares of the most indifferent pedigree. His sons, for their opportunities, were uniform sires of speed, while as a brood-mare sire he ranks among the foremost. Ultimately it is probably that his daughters will have over one hundred performers to their credit, and no tribe of matrons is held in higher estimation. Daniel Lambert's success in transmitting his physical beauty was remarkable, and the finish and elegance which a strain of his blood imparts is one of its most valuable traits.