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He was in the stud in Vermont for twenty years, 

 and at twenty-two was taken to Alabama, where 

 he died from an injury received in disembarking 

 from the ship that carried him. His sons and 

 daughters in New England helped materially to 

 increase the fame of the type, as they were larger 

 than the other branches of the family, and had in 

 a great degree the characteristic virtues — fear- 

 lessness, elegance, speed, stamina, and docility. 

 Three of his sons — Gifford Morgan, Morgan 

 Eagle, and Morgan Caesar — became famous 

 sires, their sons, grandsons and great-grandsons 

 being reckoned among the best horses in Amer- 

 ica. One of the grandsons of Gifford Morgan was 

 Vermont Morgan, the sire of Golddust, a horse 

 which established one of the most noted and val- 

 uable families of the Morgan strain. Golddust 

 was foaled in Kentucky in 1855, and was at his 

 best during the Civil War, his opportunities being 

 very much curtailed by the unsettled and dis- 

 tressing social conditions which prevailed in the 

 neighborhood where he was owned. But he was a 

 wonderful horse, and having received through 

 his dam another fresh infusion of Arabian blood. 



