Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1874-01-09

growing cOlbs tnaJ are kept upOn tne iuIlh,
and that are owned largely in distant states,
being kept here by their owners to receive
the superior care and management Of Mr..
Harris, and enjoy the benefit and the advantage
of the pastures, air and water of Western
Vermont, as we'll as the benefit Of the blood
in breeding from some Of the very best stall
lions now kept at the stud in this country,
more especially for breeding fast driving
horses for gentlemen's drivers or for the
hack
The stock on the farm is almost entirely
horses and colts, one yoke OF working oxen
and three cows being all the other stock
kept the past season, except perhaps few
hogs to furnish part of the meat consumed
on the place, and to utilize any waste from
the cows and family.
As tho chief attraction or speciality is
the keeping of stations of superior excel
lence and blood for bree,ling purposes, we
will attempt description Of those kept
here, First is
Lambert,
almost too well-known to need description.
He is now fourteen years old, in full pos
session Of all the vigor Of a colt, but with
q finish of a mature horse in cleanness Of
head, neck, body and limb, with style
rarely met with in any horse that has not
cross of Morgan blood, with a slashiDg
stride that prOpels him along at the speed of
q wbirlwind, courage that keeps up the
speed for any distance, and pride that new
er rorgots the style. In all these character
istics combined, by no horse that have
ever seen is Lambert surpassed, or even to
my eye equalled.
The power to stamp upon his offspring
these characteristics seems to be possessed in
a remarkable degree by this noble horse,
and his colts are making themselves famous,
and are commanding large prices for gen.
tlemen's drivers, and u number are coming
to the front as very fast for the track, and
are selling at very high prices. A large
number have been sold into the hands of
gentlemen who do not keep them for sport.
ing, and although they have made extraor-
dinary time in private, have not received
record, and therefore are unknown to the
public as trotters. Lambert derives his
style and speed, as well as his courageous
disposition, from happy cross Of Morgan
and Messenger blood though his sire Ethan
Allen, and his dam, Fanny, by Old Abdal-
lah. The pedgrees back Of both these are
too well known to require celebrating here.
The performances that give value as trotting
blood were nearly all by Ethan Allen in the
pedigree back of Lambert, and are most Of
them CT public record, but one or two in
private may not be SO well known have
seen it stated that in his younger days he
trotted n half mile on the ice in one minute,
and on the track in 1:5. His son Lambert
has never had long experience on the
track, but in consequence of an accidental
scOrching by burning his stable when young
he was for some time untitled for trotting.
and before he returned to the track his
great value as 4 sire was discovered and so
well appreciated that he has been kept con.
stantly at the stud ever since, and so pop
ular has he become that it is impossible to
supply all with his services who apply, and
large numbers have been turned away, not
wlthstanding his services have been advanced
to 800. He probably stands to-day the
best patronized sire Of trotters in New En-.
gland, as well as the most popular of the
colts of Old Ethan.
Abraham.
But Lambert is not the only horse at
Cream Hill that is making name and mon
ey for his owners as a sire OF trotters. Abra-
ham, blood bay, by Lambert, out of Polly
Cook, she by old Black Hawk, is doing much
to increase the popularity of this branch of
Morgan trotters. and materially increase tho
profits of the st ock farms at Cream Hill.
This horse received such abuse when young
as to permanently disable him for driving or
trotting and forever mar his beauty, but
when he is led out his efforts at style show
what q fine appearance he would have made
had he had reasonable treatment in his
younger days. The performances of some of
his colts have been so remarkable, and all
his stock 80 uniformly fine in size, color and
action, that although his services have been
held much lower, he has had all the business
he could do through the summer at Cream
Hill, and has been making late fall and
winter season at the stock farms of Mr..
Bates, in Massachusetts, the senior partner
of the firm of Bates Il Harris. This last
demand for the services of Abraham has
been created by the performances of some of
his colts that have been sold at long prices
at Boston.
There are three colts sired by Abraham
that are claimed by their owners to have
made time in private unequalled by the per.
formances of any of similar age. Two four
year'Olds are claimed to have made full miles
in private in 1926, and half miles in l:lOI
and I'LL.
Broken Leg.
To satisfy the demand for the services of
a stallion of HambletOnian blood, and also
to try the cross upon few of the young
mares from Lambert at the Cream Hill
Breeding Farms, Mr., Harris has procured
the young stallion Broken Leg, a name he
received from having one of his legs broken
when first foaled This horse is tall, rangy,
very stylish, and of extraordinary stride and
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