" CLA YRABlAr AND " CLA YBEALE GRANT: 



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running or colder-bred mares. Now, in so writing of Kentucky, 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 im- 

 ported Arabian Zilcaadie to a little inbred Morgan horse called Ver- 

 mont Morgan. The get and produce was called Golddust, from his 

 golden color. This colt, foaled in 1855, was bred upon the principle 

 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 Jack- 

 son, similarly bred, also imported 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 teach- 

 ings, 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 them- 

 selves. 



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 daughters of Dor- 

 sey'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 understand. 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 



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