Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-13

When in the annual review of the business
and growth of St. Paul during the year 1881,
published the last day of the year in the
GLOBE, we gave a list of the horses pur-
chased by Commodore N. W. Kittson, the
prices paid for each animal and the money
paid for land (the st. Paul Driving Park prop
erty) and in building stables, etc., for stock
breeding purposes-the total expenditure thus
shown and made during the proceed
ing ten months, aggregating $25O,OOO
in round numbers, we thought-and we doubt
not our readers were of the same opinion
that Commodore Kittson had about reached
the goal aimed at in the number and excellence
of horses to be purchased, and in the COM
pleteness and elegance of the appointments
for his breeding and proposed turf operations,
looking to the natural increase for further
addition to his stock, save only in exceptional
cases where it should be deemed advisable to
secure some notable turf performer, or the
sire or dam of some such performer.
In this supposition we and those who
thought with us, were greatly at fault, as it
transpires that on Saturday last Commodore
KittsOn made by far the most important pur-
| the sensation of year of sensations he has
| furnished-that of the noted Chestnut
Hill stock farm and stud, or Erdenheim,
the property of Mr.. Aristides WEIGH, the
| breeder of the world famous Iroquois, winner
of the English Derby, ETC., paying therefor
| the sum of Sl5O, 600, making in all $4,000
Mr.. Kittson has paid IN stock investments in
| less than eleven months.
| Chestnut Hill stock farm is located in the
valley of the WissahicKon about twelve miles
| from Philadelphia, and contains $50 acres of
| falling land, with rich soil, excellant drainage
and water facilities, and probably the best ap-
pointments of any stock farm
in the United States. The pur-
chase includes three thoroughbred stations
and between fifty and sixty brood mares and
Youngsters. The stations are Alarm Reform
| and Lyttleton. Alarm, is b. b. foaled 1869,
| by imp. Bonnie Scotland, dam Rebecca, by
| imp. Glencoe. Reform, and the most thought
of, is also bay. foaled 1871, by imp. Leaning
| ton, the son of Iroquois, dam imp, Stolen
Kisses, by imp. Knight of the Kars. Lyttle
ton, another bay, was foaled in 1867. also by
imp. bennington, dam Fanny Holton, by
Lexington. Among the principal mares in
Enquirer; La Rose, the dam of Rosali;
Susan Beane, the dam of Sensation, Suseque-
hanna and Onandago; Maggie B. B. the
dam of Iroquois and Harold; Mary Clark. the
dam of Spark; Nemesis, the dam of Rhada-
manthus; Megara, the dam of Spinaway;
Stolen Kisses, the dam of Reform; Lady Mot
ley, the dam of Lucifer and Blazes, and Henri
eta WEIGH, the dam of gossip.
| From this enumeration it will be seen that
the stock at Chestnut Hill is thoroughbred,
and the inference to be drawn from the purchase
is that Commodore Rittson intends making
Chestnut Hill The headquarters of his thor
oughbred breeding operations, while the
Midway farm at st. Paul will be devoted to the
trotter. This is mere matter of inference,
but the fact that several previous purchases
of thoroughbreds have been retained in the
east would indicate that thus was his inten-
ton. Before this purchase, Commodore Kilt
son owned twenty eight head of thorough
bred, including the imported slal-
lions, Dalnacardack and Woodland,
ten mares, several imported, three
colts and thirteen FLIES, the colts and fillies
embracing the get of Bonnie Scotland, Lean
ington, Enquirer, Reform, Great Tom and
other noted sires. This string added to the
Chestnut Hill stock, will make one of the
most formidable and valuable thoroughbred
breeding establishments IN America.
| 4 BARGAIN.
Of the purchase and the property, the Phila-
delphia Times of the 9th says:
| 1t is pretty generally admitted that Commo.
dore Kittson got bargain when he purchased
Erdenheim, Aristides Welch's stock farm at
Chestnut Hill, for S15O.OOO, and it's famous
stud of blooded and fleet-footed equines Until
last year, when A. j. Cassatt purchased a
magnificent farm in Delaware county and
stocked it with ANIMALS whose pedlgrees can
| be traced back hundreds of years, Mr.. Welch
was the only breeder of thoroughbreds in
| Pennsylvania, and Erdenheim, made famous
| by that grand horse, imp. bennington and his
sons and daughters, was the Mecca towards
which turfmen from all parts of the country
made annual pilgrimages when the sales of
yearlings took place. No matter who the fu-
| ture proprietor Of Erdenheim is its fame
will be bright as long as horses are
bred, raised and trained for racing purposes.
That Mr.. Welch's success as q breeder was
largely due to the foresight and Judgment he
displayed when he purchased bennington, then
a comparatively neglected stallion, is undeni-
able, and the history of the imported stud
after his arrival at Erdenheim and besot racer
after racer is almost unequaled in equine his
tory.
THE FAMOUS LEAMINGToN.
In 1865, when IL years old, bennington
was bought by R. W. Cameron, of New York,
for $500 and brought to this country. He
had started in twenty four races in England,
winning two Chester cups and six other races.
His produce in the stud, however, were not
well thought of. He reached General Buford's
Kentucky farm in 1866 and in 1867 dozen
foals were dropped to him and among the lot
were such truly great ones as Longfellow, En-
quirer, Lynchburg, Lyttleton, Governor
Bowie, Annie Mace and Alice, greater show.
ing than was ever made in America before by
stallion in one season. Before the flyers
named reached 3-year-old form their still I'M
fashionable sire was sent to Staten Island,
where the breeders neglected him until, in the
fall of 1869, he was purchased by Mr..
WEIGH. In 1870, although well-bred brood
mares were scarce in the East, bennington
sired, among Others, Nemesis, Stamps,
Item, Oliata and Strong, and from
that time forward his merits as sire of racers
has been known all over the world. Since his
death Reform and Alarm have been the heads
of the Erdenheim stud, and SO well were the
yearliugs got by Reform, Leamington's son.
thought of at the annual sale last spring tina,
they brought nearly $1,000 apiece. The last
of the bennington yearIings were bought in
1878 by the Lorllards. Leamington's sons
and daughters, bred and raised by Mr.. WEIGH.
won s64 Sis in 1875; S33, 772 in 1876; S4l,17O
in 1877; $50 755 in 1878; $40, 037 in 1879; $780,,
600 in 1880, and S136,SS9. $50 in 1881. In 1875,
1879 and 1881 he stood at the head of the list
of winner getting stations. Of his sons at the
stud, Longfellow, Enquirer, Lynchburg and
Reform have all sired good ones, and no doubt
Harold, Iroquois' great brother, who is now
the chief of Mr.. Walden's equine stock in
Maryland, will be the father of a host of
racers. Commodore Kittson has purchased
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