The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-04-23
The Great American Trotter, GOIddust.

Golddust was one OF the most Mustrio1s
horses ever bred on this continent e'au N
many respects, stands without rival For
peerless beauty, magnificent style, lofty Eieln
and splendid action he has never DeeEl sur
passed He was bred by the eminent sock
grower L. L. Dorsey, Dr. OF Eden Faril1, Set-
ferscn county, Kentucky, gentleman VINO
has devoted long and active HE IN develop
ing, advancing and promoting the stock grow
ing interests of our country, and who has
contributed more IN that respect, as regards
trottlng horses, than any man OF the present
time. Goldduat was foaled in 1853. he was
sired by Vermont Morgan, he by Bernard Nor
gan and out OF Chase's noted Morgan mare.
The dam OF Golddust was a thoroughbred
mare, sired by the imported Arabian horse
Zilcadia, out Of a thoroughbred mare by the
imported English race horse Barefoot. The
pedigree of Vermont Mofgsn runs back d.
reetlysto the renowned True Brlton, an impor-
Golddust was fun sixteen hands high, and
weighed, in good condition, ], 275 pounds. Bis
head was 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, well proportioned and beautifully shaped
and let down on shoulders wonderfully long
that played well up to the 1Flthers ana down 20
his long beautiful and muscular arms his
knees very broad and short from the knee 10
the ankles, which were long. slneWy ana elas-
tic, set Ia deep, small and beauu1uIy SNAPPED
feet. His backbone was eNqulsltely SNAPPED
and wonderfully large back OF the shoulders
and tapered AZ II An forward or back from
this point The muscles OF the back we're
large and well thrown up above the bone, ms
lOins smooth hin 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 ne sd-
yanced in years he gradually grew darker, and
at his death, was a deep, rich, red chestnut
Golddust was the fret three-year old that
ever won trotsing 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, ana 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 q six weeks tour
in the West, and three days before the trot,
was driven thirty-eight miles IN one day. At
four years 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 aud beat all the best stations in Ken
lucky eleven seconds, among them Iron Duke,
who was matched against him Tor S1O,OOO
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, I'M
til his death, at the age Of seventeen, he sired
yearly from twenty-five to forty coits-ln all
about two hundred and fifty. The youngest
now about tive years old, like all the rest, are
so strikingly marked in shape, form, STYLE
manner and action, that they can at once be
recognized
Golddust was the sire OF the first tWo-year
old that ever trotted mile in Kentucky in
less 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 made in Ken
lucky. The same horse, five years before,
distaneed his opponents at Albany, New York,
and logged home IN the remarkable time OF
2:21 and could have made 1t in 2:16 had he
been pressed. The same horse was winner at
three and four years old distsncing 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
err 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
nersl Last year, in the grand Colt Stakes at
| Buffalo and Utica, New York, not 8 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. In
! New York, in Hiram Woodruff stakes, but
one Northern colt could be found to enter the
! race, and that one was distanced. For thlr-
! teen years Mr.. Dorsey has trotted his Gold
! dusts and repeatedly defied all other breeds at
| long or short races, and has won in nine-tenths
! 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 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 go back or cease to improve as do
coarser breeds. The record the Golddusts
have made should inspire as Americans
| with q lust pride, and especially should We
exult when we can claim such horses for a
sister State. Er. Dorsey deserves the thanks
and gratitude Of our whole people for intro
ducing this noble and justly famous breed OF
horses into our country.
There is an old Rdage, like sire like SON
and another equally true, like produces like;
his get 4? He beat all the best colts at three
years old and In the best time that had been
made by colt OF his age, and at six he beat
the best horses of Kentucky, native raised, OF
imported from the East. He produced the
first two year old that ever trotted below
three minutes, and second of his colts out OF
TEN, distanced his opponents at three, four,
five, 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, a third one
| of these ten, distanced Bob johnson, the best
six-year old in Kentucky, when five years old.
After these shOwiDgs, who that loves the
horse, will say, If properly bred, he cannot be
used at all ages from three to fourteen, OF
even to twenty or twenty-five years of age
Rolla Golddust has been trotting for eleven
years, and won all the way from three years
old 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 al
seven he distanced Locky in 2:25; at eight
years he distanced the PAGER, Billy Boyce, in q
Jog in 2:21 at thirteen he distanced his Op-
ponent at Louisville, beating any time eyel
made in Kentueky.-ROlfe S. Saunders.