The Republican. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 187?-187?, 1874-05-02
The Great American Trotter, Golddust.

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Golddust was one OF the, most illustrious
horses ever bred on this continent, and in
many respects, Stands without rival For
peerless beauty, magnificent STYLE lofty mein
and splendid action, he has never been sur
passed. He was bred by the eminent stock
grower, L. L. Dorsey, Jr., Of Eden Farm, JET
ferson county, Kentucky, gentleman who
has devoted long and active lie In develop
ing, advancing and promoting the stock grow
ing interests OF our country, and WHO has
contributed more in that respect, as regards
trotting horses, than any man OF the present
time. Golddust was foaled in 1853. He was
sired by Vermont Morgan, he by Bernard Nor
gan and out OF Chases noted Morgan mare:
The dam OF Golddust was a thoroughbred
mare, sired by the imported Arabian horse
Zilcadie, ont OF thoroughbred mare by the
imported English race horse Barefoot. The
pedigree OF Vermont Morgan runs back d.
rectly to the renewed True Driton, an impor-
ted horse.
Golddust was full sixteen hands high, and
weighed, IN good condition, ,275 pounds. His
head was q model OF beauty and symmetry,
eyes very prominent, well set and wonderfully
large, bold and brilliant; his ears admirably
set throttle large and well let down; neck
long. we'll proportionad and beautifully shaped
and let down on shoulders wonderfully long
that played well up to the withers and down to
his long, beautiful and muscular arms his
knees very broad and short from tho knee to
the ankles which were long, sinewy and elias
tic, set in deep, small and beautifully shaped
feet. His backbone was exquisitely shaped
and wonderfully large back OF the shoulders
and tapered as ii ran forward or back from
this point. The muscles OF the back were
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loiDs smooth, hip and thigh bones large and
fully supplied with muscles. His color at the
age Of three years was that of gold, from
which he derived his name but AS no adj
vanced in years he gradually grew darker. and
at his DEATH was deep, rich, red chestnut.
Golddust was the first three-yesr old that
ever won trotting race In Kentucky in as fast
time as three minutes. At that age he was
broke TO harness and was handled the summer
and fall, and exhibited at the state fairs at
OF that year in Illinois and Indiana, and in
Kentucky at Louisville, Henderson and Bards-
town, and won the speed rings every time.
The first time he made three minutes was just
after he had returned from six weeks tour
ia the West, and three days before the trot,
was driven thirty-eight miles in one day. At
four wears old he made short season for his
owner, and sired nine or ten colts; at five
years old, about twenty more at six he was
trained and beat all the best stations in Ken
lucky eleven seconds, among them Iron Duke,
who was matched against him for $4,000,
which he won with ease, leaving him dis
lance behind. He sired but few colts during
each year OF the war, and after that time, un-
I'll his death, at the age Of seventeen, he sired
yearly from twenty-five to forty colts-in all
about two hundred and fifty. The youngest,
now about tive years old, like all the rest, are
80 strikingly marked in shape, form, style,
manner and action, that they can at once be
recognized.
Golddust was the sire OF the fret two-year
old that ever trotted mile in Kentucky in
lees than three minutes. Last year, at Louis
vile, one Of his colts, Rolla Golddust, dis
tanced his opponent, and made the time'in
2:25 being the best time ever mace in Ken
lucky. The same horse, five years before,
distancei his opponents at Albany, New York,
and logged home in the remarkable time OF
2:2l, and could have made it in PIG had he
been pressed. The same horse was winner at
three and four years old, distancing his oppo-
nents at Woodlawn. But few OF his colts
from two to four-have been handled yearly,
as he was kept almost exclusively for his own
or but with even the few handled they have
been able to win at least nine out of ten races
against colts from three to five years old. At
Chicago there were sixty-eight entries at these
ages, and the Golddust furnished all the win
ners Last year. in the grand Colt Stakes at
Buffalo and Utica, New York, not a single
Northern colt could be found to start against
Glencoe Golddust. Four years ago they won
at Boston. They won also in Iowa, for stakes
for two, three, four and five years old. Iu
New York, in Hiram Woodruff's stakes but
one Northern colt could be found to enter the
race, and that one was distanced. For thir-
teen years Mr.. Dorsey has trotted his Gold
dusts and repeatedly deied all other breeds at
long or short races, ana mas won In uinv-t0ntho
OF all the matches he could get, and been sue
cessful in three-fourths of all the colt purses
in which they have started, from Boston south
to Alabama, and west to st. Louis, Chicago,
Iowa and Michigan. They have trotted against
such horses as Dexter, Billy Boyce, Pilots,
ETC., etc, and beaten more than three times
as many races as all other breeds ever won
over them, at even ages. The great and in
estimable value of this breed is that they are
fast at from two years old up to the oldest,
aud do not 60 back or cease to improve as do
coat 5r breeds. The record the Golddusts
have made should inspire us as Americans
with Just pride, and especially should we
exult when we can claim such horses for a
sister State. Mr.. Dorsey deserves the thanks
and gratitude OF our whole people for intro
ducing this noble and justly famous breed of
horses into our country.
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and another equally true, like produces like;
aud is not this fully proven by Golddust and
his get d? He beat all the best colts at three
years old, and in the best time that had been
made by a colt of his age, and at Ssix he beat
the best horses of Kentucky, native rasedn or
imported from the East. He produced the
first two year old that ever trotted below
three minutes, and a second of his colts out of
ten, distanced his opponents at three, four,
Eve, seven and eight years of age, and at thir
teen did the same, marking the best trotting
time ever made in the greatest of all breeding
States, Kentucky. Willy Golddust, third one
Of these ten, distanced Bob johnson, the best
six-year old in Kentucky, whe five years old,
After these showings who that loves the
horse, will say if properly bred, he cannot be
lsed at all ages from three to fourteen, or
even to twenty or twenty-five years of age ?
Rolla Golddust has been trotting for eleven
Years, and won all the way from hree years
I'D up, and now his owner desires to match
him against any horse, at one and two miles.
At six years old he challenged Dexter, and at
Ieven he distanced Locky in 2:25; at eight
years he distanced the PAGER, Billy Boyce, in a
og, in 2:21 at thirteen he distanced liz op"
,onent at Louisville, beating any time ever
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