524 THE MORGANS. 



Instead of there being any mystery or anything unusual in the origin of 

 this horse GoUklust, he is simply the fortunate I'esult of a cross between aa 

 in-bred Morgan horse and a high bred, perhaps thoroughbred, inare of run- 

 ning blood, lie was of good size and fine style, combining in his form most 

 happily many of the best points of each type. In his mental organization, 

 the qualities of his sire, beyond doubt, largely predominated, impressing- 

 upon him a good degree of trotting instinct, which, in his turn, he has trans- 

 mitted to his progeny. 



Not being willing to accept of the probabilities of the horse having- 

 originated in any of the foregoing mysterious ways, I have given the 

 subject some consideration; and find myself also unable to accept of 

 the suggestion made by Mr. Wallace, that Golddust was " simply the 

 fortunate result of a cross between an in-bred Morgan horse and a. 

 high bred, perhaps thoroughbred, mare of running blood." This is- 

 totally at war with the often-advanced proposition of the learned- 

 editor, that there must have been an inheritance resting in trotting- 

 blood. The success of Golddust as a sire asserts that he had this, 

 quality by inheritance. He transmits so much of it, and his trotters- 

 have a gait so uniform and so much like real trotters, as to repel the 

 idea that it could have come from a Morgan who did not have it, or 

 from his union with a mare of racing blood where it did not exist. 



Two sources so utterly destitute could not have transmitted the 

 trotting qualities in such abundance. We must look for some other 

 explanation. A careful study of the gait and way of going of such, 

 of the Golddusts as have come under my observation, has revealed 

 to me the fact that they were strong and positive in their way of 

 going, very demonstrative and much alike in this respect, and that 

 they all display more action than any of the other real trotters of the 

 Morgan family — totally unlike any of the Blackhawks in particular.. 

 The latter were an easy going family — not violent or demonstrative — 

 some others made a great ado with their front feet, but did not dis- 

 play much gait behind; but the Golddusts show action all over, and 

 they have a vigorous and demonstrative propelling power in their 

 quarters and thighs. They are not second rate trotters by any means. 



It is finally ascertained and agreed, on all sides of the question, 

 that Golddust had a sire, and that his name was Vermont Morgan; 

 and from recent statements given to the public it appears that this 

 Vermont Morgan was brought to Madison county, Illinois, in 1849, by 

 Mr. J. Y. Sawyer; that Mr. Sawyer purchased him in the fall of 1848 

 when two years old, of his breeder, Mr. Lockwood, of Springfield, Ver- 



