Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-04-16

accompanying the same. Our CORES
pondent is nephew of l.. l.. Dorsey,
ESQ. who bred the original Golddust,
was his superintendent for several years,
and is doubtless better acquainted with
the Golddusts as a family, respecting his
tory. pedigrees and characteristics, than
any other person now living. The fur
ther fact that Mr.. Dorsey is most grace
full and accomplished writer combines to
make his communications of peculiar in
terest and value:
The HIGHLANDS FARM.
Mddletown, Ky, March >, 1856.
Editor Register In reply to your ia
vor of recent date, | will say that | have
not been able to get cut of Zilcadie
Golddust yet, as there is no draughtsman
here competent to make IA good drawing
from which a tirst-class cut can be made.
As soon as | can get it ready. will send it
to you. purpose especially to have it
ready for your book. | enclose the pedi-
grees of Golddust, ir., Glencoe Golddust
and am fortunate enough to be able to
send you stud bill of Green Mountain
Black Hawk gotten out by my grand
father. Elias Dorsey, and on it you will
find the pedigree as given by party from
whom he purchased him. 1t fails to give
his age as far as | can see, but from the
best | can learn he was foaled in 1870 or
81. as his oldest colts were the exact age
of Golddust. who was fOaled in 1873. As
regards Champion GodduSt. can give
you no details. "a do not know him by
that name Could we find his owner, it
may be that we could place him and give
his breeding. He is given a sire of the
dam of Joe BaSSctt. sire of Johnson. the
fast PAGER. The sire of Gossip. ir.. is
given as from MUllie GoldduSt. full sister
to Lucille Golddust 2:lG IL. now own
a mare cause" by Green Mountain Black
Hawk that is now about 80 years old
and will fOal to /ilcadie Golddust the lst
of April. She is out of thoroughbred
mare by imported Glencoe and is the
dam of Glencoe GoldduSt. who has shown
his ability to trOt in , 20. The Green
Mountain Black Hawk mares ALWAYS
crossed well with the Golddusts both as
to size. style. speed and durability. Our
colts from /ilcadic GoldduSt are more
promising than were those of Golddust
himself and as fine as colts can be. My
uncle, who bred Golddust, and is now
training a lot of colts from Zilcadie. says
that he never handled as promising lot
before. and they all show speed, which,
combined with their natural beauty and
style, cannot help making them desirable
at good figures. They take the eye of all
visitors, unless it be those so strongly
preiudiced in favor of other breeds that
they will not express themselves. They
range generally from l3 II to III hands
and finely finished. don't think there
could be Il better cross than the Lamberts
on GOldduStS, or rice rcrSd. Since | COM
menced this letter have had Il visit from
Gen. j. A. Smith of Washington. ID. c.,
who is the owner of Marmion Golddust
and profound admrer of the Morgans.
He expressed great admiration for the
young Golddusts in this section and es-
pecally for the get of Zilcadie, and he
selected filly by him to take to his place,
She was foaled July, 1885, by Zilcadie
Goddust, dam Fashion by Fancy Gold
dust, etc. | wish you would correspond
with Gen. Smith (whose address you will
find on bill of Marmion Golddust) who
you will find one of the best posted
men on the Golddusts and MorganS gen
orally. He expressed his willingness tC
assist you in any way with your WORK
and you will find him an able assistant
Read carefully the bill of Marmion Gold
dust and you will see some facts and fig
ures that are hard to overcome. You
will see that Golddust, out of 302 colts
got Lucille with record of 2 10 II in
hard-fOught race. while IIambletonian'
best was Dexter IL (made against tim
with running company besides. Ham
bletOnian got all told as | understand
1926 foals. Don't that do to compare
Besides, Golddust out of his 800 colts. 90
two with records of , 20 or better. Ham
bletonian out of his 1926 colts claims Onl
flaHs. Na~tfh u ..lD
Certainly this makes good showing. es
pecially when you consider that the lat
civil war cut GOlddust's stud service yer
short. Also in breeding, the dams q
these fast ones must be taken into con
sideration, and when you know that non
of the dams of GOldduSt's colts were q
what is recognized as trotting blood
makes still better showing. | find
few more of the get of GOlddust VIII
have sired 30 horses and will send yo
list of them soon. | have several lei
tiers from Mr.. Battell as regards horse.
pedigrees and will answer them as 500
as can get definite authority, as wal
to have all the pedigrees as nearly COZ
rect as possible. Shall be pleased to Civ
you any information in my power and I
hear from you at amy time.
Yours truly,
l.. l.. DORSEY.
The following letter, dated 9th inst
enclosed the table of Golddusts' trottel
given below. 1t will be noted that
giving records the unvarying figure
omitted; thus, Lucille Golddust. b. III
lG II" gives her record of 2 :lG II.
Editor Register Herewith | hand We
something of interest, as it contains Il
get of Golddust with record of 2 80
better carefully taken from Chester
Record up to January, 1885. As hay
not seen, the record of 1885, there may
few in that. You will see from list
enclose that quite IA proportion of Col
dust's 302 colts have records, and whe
you take into consideration that a gre
many of these records were made at thr'