fame. The lot of Arabian and Arab-Barb blood which came to America after about 

 1750 brought prompt results wherever it happened to be found. The first real 

 fast mare that appeared in American trotting horse history was Flora Temple. 

 Her dam, Madam Temple, was sired by an Arabian horse owned by Horace Terry, 

 of Dutchess County, New York. She defied the world for many years. 



The GoJddust section of the Morgan horse was created by Morgan on sire 

 side and the imported Arabian Zilcaadie and Anglo-Arab on dam side. There 

 were likely few, if any, equals to this Golddust family of trotting horses outside of 

 Andrew Jackson-Henry Clay blood, from any standpoint one may wish to view 

 them. They were beautiful beyond description. And Golddust was undefeated 

 as a trotter and in blood had no equal among American trotters outside of the 

 Clays and Morgans and he produced both large and elegant. The Civil War was 

 the means of the loss of the Golddust trotters. Golddust creation will ever stand 

 as one of the most brilUant accomplishments in American trotting horse breeding 

 history, as well as a lasting monument to the name of L. L. Dcrsey, the well- 

 known Kentucky breeder. 



The following quotations from the book published by the eminent John Law- 

 rence, of England, in the year 1809, will give the reader a very correct idea of 

 what the feeling was among horsemen of England at that time. It will be noted 

 this quotation is from a book published about one year after the final revision 

 and perfection of the Weatherby Stud Book: 



"The superior speed and excellence of the horses of the desert of the Arabian 

 and Mountain Barbs seems to have been a modern discovery, and made in this coun- 

 try, which has in consequence produced horses without parallel for speed and endur- 

 ance, in any part of the world or in any age." 



John Lawrence further remarks (1809) : 



"I shall begin with the original coursers, the Arabian and the Barb, proceeding 

 to notice their varieties and their bastard produce in those countries of nearly the 

 same parallel, or wherever they are found. Of these horses we are enabled to speak 

 with all the certainty of experimental observation, their species having been long nat- 

 uralized in this country, from successive importations of individuals within the last 

 two hundred years. Arabia Deserta is allowed to be the breeding country of the 

 purest and highest bred racers, that is to say, possessed in the highest degree of those 

 qualities which distinguish the species, and which are generally best ascertained 

 in their produce. This 'Glory of Arabian Zoology' is found in the northern part of the 

 desert between Suez and Persia, and is bred by the Bedouin Arabs. 



"Horses were formerly found in a wild state in these sandy, hot and barren 

 regions, but it is not ascertained whether such be the case at present; an obvious 

 improbability indeed, considering their great value, and that they never could have 

 been very numerous in a country producing so little food. Mr. Pinkerton seems 

 to think it rather probable that the Arabians were descended from the wild horses 

 of Tartary, the latter having passed through Persia in order to be perfected in Arabia, 

 an unfortunate surmise, far beneath the standard, I hope, of his other antiquarian 

 conjectures. The Arabians divided their horses into three classes : the Kochlain or 

 Kehilani, the Kehidischi, and the Attichi ; the first are the noble, as they are styled, 

 or the original high-bred coursers, the produce of the middle or mountainous country, 

 the blood of which has been preserved pure and uncontaminated by any alien mix- 

 ture or cross, as the Arabs pretend, for more than two thousand years. However, 



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