The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-04-24
The Great American Trotter, GOlddust.

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, JEFF
ferson county, Kentucky, gentleman who
has devoted a long and active life 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 1858. He was
sired by Vermont Morgan, he by Bernard Nor
gan and out of Chases noted Morgan mare.
The dam of Golddust was 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, 1875 pounds. His
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 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 eXqulsltely shaped
and wonderfully large back of the shoulders
and tapered as it ran forward or back from
this point. The muscles of the back were
large and well thrown up above the bone his
loins 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 ad-
vanced 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
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
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 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 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.
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
225, being the best time ever made in Ken
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 in PIG had he
been pressed. The same horse was winner at
three and four years DID, 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
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 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. In
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 defed 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 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,
and do not go back or cease to improve as do
coarser breeds. The record the Golddusts
have made should inspire as Americans
with a Just pride, and especially should we
o1ult whom claim such horses Tor
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.
There is an old adage, like sire like SON
and another equally true, like produces like;
and is not this fully proven by Golddust and
his get ? 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 six he beat
the best horses of Kentucky, native raised, 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, |
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-yesr old in Kentucky, when five years old. |
After these showings, who that loves the |
horse will say, if properly bred, he cannot be |
used 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 three years |
Did 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 |
seven he distanced Locky in 1925; at eight |
years he distanced the PAGER, Billy Boyce, in |
Jog, in 221 at thirteen he distanced his op- |
oonent at Louisville beating any time ever |
made in Kentucky.-ROlfe s. Saunders.
STATISTICS show that of the thousands |
who die annually, large proportion are |
destroyed, not by old age, or by the |
natural exhaustion of vitality, but |
through intemperance, or disregard |
either on the part of the sufferer, or his |
parents, of the simplest laws of nature.
Such being the case-and figures cannot |
facts-the conclusion is |
that were the causes of intemperance,
its kindred vices, and disregard of |
natural laws, removed, the average |
length of the human lifetime would be |
extended proportionately What agent |
most rapidly, harmlessly and certainly |
will eradicate these vices, or the ten |
dency to them, is the question which |
has been as thoroughly and persistently |
agitated as has the search for the phil
osopher's stone. The discovery has |
been made by DIR. Joseph Walker,
whose widely known Vinegar Bitters
are accomplishing wonders which the |
old fegy doctors never dreamed of. Try |
them and Judge for yourself, as thou
sands are doing all over the country.