The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-04-17
The Great Ameriean Trotter. GoIddust.

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horses ever bred on this continent, and in
many respects, stands without a 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. Dorsey, Jr., of Eden Farm, JEFF
fersOD county, Kentucky, a gentleman who /
has devoted a long and active life in develop i
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 I
time. Golddust was foaled in 1858. 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
Zilcadie, out of a thoroughbred mare by the
imported English race horse Barefoot. The
pedigree of Vermont Morgan runs back di-
rectly to the renowned True Briton, an impor-
ted horse
Golddust was full sixteen hands high and
weighed, IN good condition, /, 275 pounds. His
head was a 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 proportional and beautifully shaped
| and let down on shoulders wonderfully long
4 that played well up to the withers and down to
! his long, beautiful and muscular arms his
/ knees very broad and short from the 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 1t ran forward or back from
! this point. The muscles Of the back were
! large and-weu thrown up above the bone, Lis
lolns 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 he advanc-
ed In years he gradually grew darker and at
his death, was deep, rich, red chestnut.
GOlddust was the first three-year 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
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that year in Illinois and Indiana, and in Ken
lucky at Louisville, Henderson snd 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
in the West, and three days before the trot
was driven thiTty-eight miles in one day. At
four years old he made a 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 SO 600,
which he won with ease, leaving him a 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 cOlts-in all
| about two hundred and fifty. The youngest,
now about two years old, like all the rest, are
! so strikingly marked in shape, form, style,
manner and action, that they can at once be
recognized.
GoIddust was the sire of the first two-year
old that ever trotted a 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
Z lucky. The same horse, five years before,
distanced his opponents at Albany, New York,
? and logged home in the remarkable time OF
2:21, and could have made it III PIG had he
been pressed. The same horse was winner al
l three and four years old, distancing his oppO-
z nents at WOOdlaWn. But few of his colts
from two to foUr-have been handled yearly
"a rFo1 AaE-r frza l. II.
er; but with even the few handled they have
; been able to win at least nine out of ten races
Z against colts from three to five years old. a
/ Chicago there were sixty-eight entries at thesj
2 | ages, and the GOlddUst furnished all the win
: ners Last year in the grand Colt Stakes a
| Buffalo and Utica, New York, not d single
| Northern colt could be found to start agaiDs
Glencoe GOldduSt. Four years ago thew VOL
: at Boston. They won also in Iowa for stake
{ for two, three, four and five years old. Il
! New York in Hiram Woodruff's stakes, bu
one Northern colt could be found to enter tn
. race, and that one was distanCsd. For thin
:. teen years Mr.. Dorsey has trotted his Gold
! dusts and repeatedly defied all other breeds :
q long or short races, and has won in nineteenth
! Of all the matches he could get, and been sue
\ cessfuI III three-fourths Of all the colt purse
q in which they have started, from Boston sout
T to Alabama, and west to st. Louis Chicago
o Iowa and Michigan. They have trotted agains
G such horses as Dexter, Billy Boyce, Pilots
- etc, etc, and beaten more than three time
- as many races as all other breeds ever wo
l. over them, at even ages. The great and IL
II estimable value OF this breed is that they al
e fast at from two years old up to the oldes
!, and do not go back or cease to improve as d
: coarser breeds. The record the Gol2duet
" have made should inspire US as American
with just pride, and especially should we e.
ult when we can claim such horses for a'sist6
# State. Mr.. Dorsey deserves the thanks an
Z gratitude Of our whole people for introducin
A this. noble and justly famous breed Of horse
d into our country.
y There Is an old adage, like sire like SON
n and another equally true, like produces like
a. and is not this fully proven by Golddust an
his get He beat al the best colts at thre
:, years old, and in the best time that had bee
u made by a colt Of his age, and at six he bel
IS the best horses of Kentucky, native raised,
lr imported from the East. He produced I'll
first tWo-year old that ever trotUed below thre
minutes, and second of his colts out of tel
distanced his opponents at three, four, 1iv
20 seven and eight years of age, and at Thrice
ne did the same, marking the best trOtting tin
r. ever made in the greatest of all breediL
Il States, Kentucky. Willy GOlddust, a third Oh
= of these ten, distanced Bob Johnson, the be
Us six-year old i'll Kentucky, when five years oil
After these shOwings, who that loves Il
horse, will say, If properly bred, he cannot
ueed at all ages from three to fourteen,
No, / even to twenty or twenty-five years of age
% Rola GOlddust has been trOtting for eleyC
a years, and won all the way from three yea
IA Old up, and now his owner desires to mate
u him against any horse, at one and two mile
y At six years old he challenged Dexter, and
- seven he distanced Locky in 1925; at Gig
ar years he distanced the PAGER, Billy BOyce, in
% jog, In 2:21 at thirteen be distanced his o
~ pOnent at Louisville, beating ary time eY
a. | made in Kentucky Role S. Saunders.