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The Great American TrOtter, GOlddust.

The Great American TrOtter, GOlddust.
Golddust was one OF the most illustrioua
horses ever bred on this continent, and in
many respects, stands without u 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
fcrson county, Kentucky, a 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, AZ regards
trOtting horses, than any man Of the present
time, Golddust was foaled in 1858. He was
rircd by Vermont Morgan, he by Bernard Nor
gan and ont OF Cha'e'B noted Morgan mare,
The dam Of Golddust was a thoroughbred
mare, sired by the imported Arabian horse
XiIcadic, ont Of II thoroughbred marc by the
imported English race horse Barefoot. The
pedigree Of Vermont Morgan runs back di-
rcctly to the renowned True Hriton, an impor-
ted horse.
Golddnst was full sixteen hands high, and
weighed, in good condition, 1,26 pounds. His
head VIA II model Of beauty and symmetry,
eyes very prominent, well ret and wonderfully
large, bold and brilliant his ears admirably
sct throttle large and well let down neck
long, well prOpOrtiOncd and beautifully shaped
and let down on shoulders wonderfully long
that played well mp to the wlthers and down to
his long, beautiful and muscular arms his
knees very broad and short from the knee to
the ankles. which were long, siucwy and elias
tie, ret in deep, small and beautifully shaped
feet, His backbone was Gyqlisitcly shaped
and wonderfully large back OF the shoulders
and tapGrCd az it ran forward or back from
tina ITtnt Ihn tnIlApI.a of iltl Iupl uyppa
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
aye Of three years was that Of gold, from
which he derived his name but az he adj
yanccd in years he gradually grew darker, and
at his death, was a doop, rich, red chestnut.
GOIddust was the frrt threc-year cd that
ever won n trOtting race in Kentucky in ~ fast
time as three minutes. At that age he was
broke to harness and was handled the summer
and fall, and exhibited at tho State fairs at
Of that year in Illinois and Indiana, ard in
Kentucky at Louisville, Henderson and Bards-
town, and won the speed rings every time.
The first time he made three Wiuutcs was Just
after he had returned from IL xix weeks tour
in the Wcst, and three days before the tr0t,
was driven thirty-ciElt miles in one day. At
fullr years old he made II short season for hls
owner, and sired nine or ten colts at five
years old, about twenty more vt xix he was
trained aud beat all the best stations in Ken
tIcky eleven seconds, among them Iron Duke,
who waS matched against him for $4,000,
which he won with ease, leaving him q dis
TANGO behind, lie sired but few cUlts during
each year of the war, and after that time, uu-
tai his death, at tho age Of seventeen, he sired
yearly from twenty-five to forty colts in all
about two hundred and fifty. The Youngest.
now about two ycara old, like all the rcet, are
40 rtrIkiugly marked in shape, form, style,
and action, that they cHn at once be
recognized.
Goldlust was the sire Of the fr-t two-vcar
old that ever trottcd II mile in Kentucky in
lie X than three minutes, Last year, at Louis
willie, one Of hi- colts, liollL Golddll4t, dis
hiH opponent, and made the time in
20, being the beet Time ever made in Ken
lucky. IDc same horse, five years before,
Instance his opponents ut Albany, New York,
aud logged home in the remarkable time of
2;2l, and could have made 1t in 2;lG had he
been pressed. The same horse wHs winner at
three and -four years old, dIstanclng h- oppo-
Icnt4 ut Woodlawn. But few Of his colts
rom two to four have been handled yearly,
Is he was kept almort exclusively for his own
'r but with even the few handled they have
Jocn able to win at least niuo ont of ten races
against cOlts from three to five years old. At
'hirago there were riNty-olght entries at these
tgcB, and the GOldduEt furnished all the win
tcrr, Last year, in the grand Colt Stakes at
}ufrllO and Utica, New York, not u single
Iorlhcrn colt could DO found to start against
]iIencoc Golddust. -Four wears ago they won
i Boston. They won also IN Iowa, for stakes
or two, three, four and five wears old. In
Sew York, in Hiram Woodruff. stakes, but
ne Northern colt could be found to enter the
ace, aud that one was distanccd. For thir-
cen years Mr.. Dorsey has trOttcd his Gold
.usts and repeatedly delod all other breeds at
Dug or short races, and has won in ninc-tpnths
T all the matches he could get, and been sue
cssful in thrcc-fuurtlS of all the colt purses
/ which they have started, from Boston south
, Alabama, and west to St. Louis, Chicago,
IVA aud Michigan. They have trottcd against
lch horses AZ Dexter, Billy BoycG, Pilots, ,
etc, and beaten more than three times .
u mauy races az all other breeds ever won '
Yer them, a. even ages. The great and in ,
Alimablc value OF this breed is that they are y
at from two years old up to tho oldest, q
Id do not go back or cease TO improve AZ do '
parHor breeds. The record the GDldduHts !
ayo made should inspire III M Americans u
nth II just pride, and especially should We :
yuIt when We can claim such horses for a ,
stcr State. Mr.. Dorsey deserves the thanks a
nd gratitude of onr whole people for intro J.
lclng this noble and justly famOus breed Of -
Drsc7 into our country, i.
There IL an old adagc, like sire like SON Z
nd another equally true, like produces like; ~
nd in not this fully proven by Golddust and l.
y get He beat all the best colts at three II
'ars old, and in tile best time that had been
adc by II colt of his age, and Mt Xix he beat
lc best horses Of Kentucky, native raised, or
Iportcd from tho East. Iio produced the
rat two year old that ever trottcd below y
lrcc minutes, and u second Of his colts out of II
N, dlstan"ed his opponents at three, four, "
Sc, seven and eight years of age, and at thlr- -
en lid the same, marking the best trotting {
ever made in the greatest Of all breeding u
atcs, Kentucky, Willy GOlddust, II third one u
these ten, dirtamccd Bob johnson, the hest ?
y-year old in Kentucky, whel five years old. u
ftcr these slowiugs, who that loves the y
)r.e, will say, If properly bred, he cannot be u
'cd at all ages from three to fourteen, or u
en- to twenty or twenty-five years Of age? !
GOlddust has been trotting for eleven
'arH, and won all the way from three years
1t up, and now his owner desires to match u
IN against any horse, Mt one and two miles. IL
/ nix years old he challenged Dexter, and at j
ven he dlttanccd Locky in 2:25; at eight ei
'ars he dlstanccl the pacor, Billy Boyco, in a At
4, IN 22l ut thirteen ho listanccd his op- cl
ut Louisville, beating any time ever ID