St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-07
MINNESOTA HORsEMEN.
Pen Pictures Of the officers OF the
Breeders Association.

Breeders Association.
Minnesota came into prominence as a
breeding state with the advent of the
late Commodore Kittson, who early in
the eighties made sensation in horse
circles by extensive purchases in Ken
lucky and elsewhere, says the Chicago
Horseman. Money was not spared in
gathering collection of high-class trot-
tiers and PAGERS, and Midway park be-
came famous. At the head of the stud
Commodore Kittson placedBlackwood
Jr, 2:22]4, and Won Arnim, 2:1915. In
the brood mare division were the record
mares Fannie Witherspoon. 2:16h;
So So, 2:1714; Minnie R, 2:19: Sannie
q, 2:27; Lady Rolfe, 2:22A Lady Groes-
beck, 2:251a Astoria, 1913; Lady Logan,
2:301a, and the pacing mare Gem, 2:l3M.
Won Amin was campaigned the first
year Commodore Kittson owned him
and was given his record in winning
race against Early Rose, Driver, Fred
Douglas, j. P. Morris and Humboldt at
Rochester, n. Y, in 1882. The Kittson
stable was strong one in 1888. 1t COM
prised Fanny Witherspoon, Won Arnim
and Gem, all of them performing credit
ably in the grand circuit and at the
large outside meetings. The previous
year Little Brown jug passed into the
cOmmodOre'S possession with record of
2:11%. In 10S3the PAGER Johnston made
record of 2:10, and that fall was also
added to the KittSon stable. The Sensa-
tional performances of 1884 were the
2:06I in single harness by Johnston
and the 2:03M by Minnie X with run
ming mate. That year the commodore
added to the 2:30 list the stallion Reve-
nue., by Smuggley, with a record of
2:22L at Chicago. The thorough
breds next attracted the commodore's
attention, and the trotters and PAGERS
representing Midway Park were not
afterward regularly campaigned. In
1883 the entire collection was dispersed,
owing to MI. KittSon'S death. AS q rae
ing states, Minnesota holds the leading
position in the Northwest. The estab-
lishments at st. Paul, Minneapolis, Still
water and other points are models of
completeness and in points of manage
ment are unsurpassed. Minnesota's
Breeders association is large and in
fiuential body that is doing good work
in the production of the national horse.
Isaac Staples, the president of the Min
nesota association of trottlng and pac-
ing-horse breeders, is well-known
past forty years has been engaged in
dealing in pine lands, numbering, log
ging and in banking. He was born in
Maine in 1916 and for years was engaged
in numbering on the Penobscot. In 1853
he removed to Minnesota and located
at Saltwater, where he now is. He
has always taken great interest
in the breeding of horses, has always
been in the breeding business, and has
owned many fast ones, among them the
stallion Guide 1897 and the bay gelding
Zig, 2:25, trotter bred by him. His
taste has led him to breed runners as
we'll as trotters. Although somewhat
advanced in years he is hale and hearty,
and never fails to attend all the meet
ings of the Minnesota association. in
which he takes very active interest
DIR. 0. j. Evans, vice president, was
born in 1910 on farm in Oneida county,
New York. He was educated in Rome
academy and albany Medical college,
where he graduated in 1862. and went
Immediately into the army, first as as
sistant surgeon and then as surgeon of
the Fortieth New York Volunteers. He
was afterwards promoted to be medical
director of the department of Farm
vile, Virginia. At the close of the war
he located at Minneapolis, where he