"From the first, Arabian stallions worked into Kentucky, where they were used 

 upon race-horse mares. Latterly, Mokhladi, Massaud, and Sacklowie, imported by 

 the late A. Keene Richards into Kentucky, did more or less business upon all kinds 

 of dams, as well as thoroughbred running breeds. I am willing to believe the public 

 did not know, in truth, the value of Arabian blood in the coach, road and trotting 

 horse, as well as race horse. 



"When, however, credit is given to Kentucky for superior blood in her brood 

 mares over any other State, and that superiority is credited to her through running- 

 horse blood, which in an earlier day was the only type of horses that she bred, we 

 are inclined to look for a more direct cause. In doing so, we find that for forty years 

 their dams have been under the influence of Arabian blood ; no less than five different 

 Arabian stallions having been imported directly into Kentucky since 1850. While 

 these horses were obtained expressly to reinforce their running-horse blood, when 

 they found it more important to breed general purpose horses (as coach, road, trot- 

 ting horses and workers), they had the all-important Arabian blood to help them, 

 whether to strengthen running or colder-bred mares. Now, in so writing of Ken- 

 tucky, I will cite one single instance of which I have many, showing the direct and 

 positive value of Arabian blood in the coach and trotting horse. In 1854 Mr. L. L. 

 Dorsey, of Kentucky, bred a daughter of the imported Arabian Zilcaadie to a little 

 inbred Morgan horse called Vermont Morgan. The get and produce was called 

 Golddust, from his golden color. This colt, foaled in 1855, was bred upon the prin- 

 ciple of once out and thrice back to a primitive blood, for Justin Morgan was Arabian 

 bred. 



"The horse Vermont Morgan was but fourteen and three-quarters hands high, 

 and was inbred to Justin Morgan's blood. Now, when he is put to the daughter of 

 imported Zilcaadie, one of the most beautiful stallion colts known in this country 

 was the result —I mean L. L. Dorsey's stallion Golddust. He grew to be sixteen 

 hands high, weighing very nearly thirteen hundred pounds, and for trotting speed 

 was the peer of anything before bred in Kentucky. *He was trotted many races, 

 never being beaten; one of them was a match race for ten thousand dollars, which 

 he won by over a distance.' 



"As a getter Golddust was the most positive sire for beauty, size and wonderful 

 trotting speed in his colts, calling to mind Andrew Jackson, similarly bred, also im- 

 ported Messenger, of similar breeding. It makes me nearly wild as I write, that I 

 cannot induce men to put away prejudice and use reason. I do not wish the reader 

 to obey my teachings, but would beg of every man interested in the breeding of horses 

 to think deep, embracing every opportunity to enlighten himself. We have already 

 too many writers who demand their readers to do as they say in print; I simply urge 

 men to be better informed of themselves. 



"Such a crop of colts as were the first get by Mr. Dorsey's Arabian bred horse 

 had no parallel in the breeding of beautiful coach, road and trotting horses, except 

 in the get of Imported Messenger, Andrew Jackson, and his son, Henry Clay, all three 

 being similarly bred to Arabian blood influence. Moreover, these sons and daugh- 

 ters of Dorsey's old Golddust had the same high nervous temperament possessed by 

 the get of Andrew Jackson and Henry Clay, also credited to the get of Imported 

 Messenger. 



"If I write too much, men will not read ; if I say too little, they will not under- 

 stand. Men never trouble themselves to condemn and abuse what is of no value, 

 or what they fully understand ; but will bring all their forces in wealth and prejudice 

 to destroy what beats them or stands in their way, not stopping to study into the 

 values of the obstacles. 



"I have been charged with being over-enthusiastic in the matter of Arabian 

 blood, called by us Clay. Now, I never began to contend for it as did Mr. Weaver, 

 of Philadelphia, or Mr. Dorsey, of Kentucky, for each of these gentlemen contended 



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