The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-01-18

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TIN FAMOUS LDAuIHorON.
In 1855 when twelve yeo0 Cd, Lean
IAgt0o W. bought ~ h w. O6meru0,
0fNew Yoek, 16e >7,toO, and brought "a
thiD country. He he'd started in TWEEN.
ty-l0ur races in England, winning two
C6Geef eupo aud other races. His pgo.
duce, h0xevoe, In the stud, Was not vel
thought Of. He reached General Blu
toTd's Kentucky in 1895 and 1851, 4
doeen foab were dropped to him, and
among the lot were such truly great
ones - Longfellow, Enquirer, Lynch
bury, Lyttleton, Governor Bowie, An
ME Mace and Alice, q greater Showing
than was ever made in America before
BY q stallion In one season. Before the
flyers named reached three-year old
form their still unfashiOnable sire waa
sent to Staten Island, where the breed
eFs neglected him until In the fall Of '6g
he ". purchased b. Mr.. Welch. In.
1871, although weii-brcd mares were
scarce in the East, bennington sired,
amOng 0thers, Nemesis, Stamps, Item,
O1jata and 6ar0ng, and from that time
forth his me9it AZ . sire Of racers has
beeen known all over the world. Since
his death Reform and Alarm, have been
the heads Of the Ervlenheim stud, aud
80 well were the yearlings got by Re
form, Leani gton's son, thought Of ut
the annual sale last spring that they
brought nearly 81 $40 apiece. The last
Of the bennington yearlings were
bought in 1878 by the Lorillartis. Lean
ingtOn's sons and daughters, bred and
raised by Mr.. WEIGH, won $64 ,5lS
in 1875; $S3, 773 in 1875; $41 10 i'm 1877;
so, 7555 in 1873; $70,0ts7 in 1879; $6O, 400
i'm 1890, and Sl38, &09. 80 in 1881. In 1876.
1879. and 1881 he stood at the head
# the list Of winner-getting stations.
OF his SONS at the stud, LongfellOw,
I.ynchburg, and Reform have NIL sired
good ones, and NO doubt Harold, Irt,-
quOis' great brother, who IL now the
chief Of Mr.. Walden's equine stock in
Maryland, will he the father Of host
Of racers. Commodore KittsOn has pur-
chased all the stock at Erdenf elm, and
that includes score Of the most nOta-
BILE and blue-blooeletl brood mares in
America.
SOME NOTED MARES.
Perhaps the NEST noted mother there
IL Maggie b. B., once a famous racer,
owned by James Clay. a grandson Of
Henry Clay, who NAMED his favOrite
mare after his sweetheart. Miss Maggie
b. Beck, q niece Of Senator Beck. Mag
gle b. B., after her racing career, was
retired to Erdenheim. W ere she became
the mother Of sue, great LeanlingtOni-
ans ~ 1roquois, the Derby winner;
Harold, the crack three-year- old of his
year; Pera, Magnum BOnum and Fran
cesca. Maiden II the dam of Parole,
James A., and other flyers. Susan
Beane, among whose Offspring are Onon-
daga, the sensational two-year-old Of
1881, who Yon four out of nine races
and $l8,O1O; Sensation, whom many
i,elieve Ia the greatest son Of Leaning
ton, Susluehanna, and others. Of the
brood mares there is not one that has
not thrown more than one race-horse,
using the word race-hOrse In its fullest
sense. The most noted mothers Of the
lot. after those named above, are Emily
Fuller. Lady Motley, Elastic, York
shire Lass, Nemesis, Long Nine, Flora,
Lady Scarborough, Madge, Theodosia,
Benecia, La Rose. Mundane. Lemon
ade, Mamie Hall, Henrietta Welch, and
Austra-lind.
a FEW ERDENIIEJM CRACKS.
Among the cracks who first saw day
light ut Erdenheim are Parolc. the aged
gelding. who won eighty-fOur races, won
over $8O, 900, and defeated Ten Broeck,
big Toni Ochiltree. Is0nomy, Moni-
tor and many other great horses IrD-
quois, who won the Newmarket. Bur-
we'll. Derby, st, James, Palace. Prince
ofWales. Doncastcr, st. Leger and New
market Derby stakes, and was seca,nd to
Peregrinc for the two thousand g,lineas,
and third to Bend Or forthe Champion
ship stakes Aris:ides, the famous ''Ret1
horse' that the Kentuckians believed
invincible; Harold Har-
old'' they called him in his three-year
old forn,-who raced away from all
competitors in the easiest way, nut final
ly went the way Of most good ones and
broke down; but he il ~ we'll thought
Of far stud purposes that his present
owner refused $l5,pW for him the day
after his brother, Irol,u'is won the
Derby.
ANOTHER STRING or Stock.
Then there was Sensation, who won
the eight races he started for ~ II two
year old. and was 50 speedy that his nd
mircrs declared he could give any hOrse
in America one hundred yards in two
miles and beat him: OnontlagQ. the two
year old Of 1881, and Bouncer, Frances
ca, TonawandO and Tuscaloosa, all
are Erlehcim bred and
horn. The names Hyder All. James A.,
Pawnee, Annie Augusta. sioux, Pap
pooae, Susguehanna, Olitipa: Outcast,
(;alatca, Hattie F., Cuba, Diamond,
Ishasla n,anthus. Katie l'c:sse, ROsalie,
Bob Wool:y, Eolus, Giroae and Girofla,
Gossip, Wyan.lotte, Snunterer, Spark,
B!azes, Lottery, Pera, Magnum, DO
mum, and whole brigade Of other not
I'd performers who we're sired by Learn
ington can be found on the books Of this
great stud farm.
A Chicago Girls Love.
''Doss your father keep dog:'
These words. uttered with the simple