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mont in 1863. In 1853 he was awarded premi- 

 ums at the Kentucky, Ohio, and Michigan fairs ; 

 and one of his sons, Morgan Eagle, bred to a 

 daughter of Blythe's Whip by Blackburn's Whip, 

 produced Kentucky Queen, dam of Kentucky 

 Prince, sire of Guy, 2.09!. 



L. L. Dorsey of Louisville, Kentucky, made 

 the Golddust tribe famous. He was a restless, 

 ambitious man and always had a chip on his 

 shoulder. At one time he flooded me with 

 communications as to what the sons and daugh- 

 ters of Golddust could do. Barnard's Morgan, 

 a bay horse of 15. ij, was foaled in 1843; and he 

 was by Gifford's Morgan out of a brown mare 

 of nearly 16 hands, strong-going and an excel- 

 lent roadster. In 1857 he was shown, with 26 

 of his get, at St. Louis and attracted much atten- 

 tion. A light bay mare of 15 hands and marked 

 excellence was bred to him, and the result was 

 Vermont Morgan, a bay of 15 hands, foaled in 

 September, 1846. He was taken to Illinois in 

 1849, an d remained there until 1864, when he 

 was sold to L. L. Dorsey of Kentucky, who sold 

 him in 1860 to go to Alabama. He could trot 

 in three minutes. In 1864 Andrew Hoke sent 

 to him a fine-looking mare by Zilcadi (a chestnut 



