276 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 



A DIRECTOR OF SHORTHORN DESTINIES 



108. In 1903 the herd of George Harding (115) & Son, which 

 for years had been a vitalizing factor in the Shorthorn circles 

 of Wisconsin and the Middle West was put up at public auction 

 at the Union Stock Yarcis, Chicago, in order to permit Mr. 

 George Harding to retire. For the first time the Saddle and 

 Sirloin Club was used as a medium for the entertainment of 

 the buyers at that sale, and it thereby was dedicated to a service 

 in good fellowship among the breeders of America that it shall 

 never forego. Mr. Frank Harding, junior partner of the firm, 

 thereupon took over the entire Anoka establishment, and so 

 developed and extended its operations that thenceforward it 

 quite dominated showyard, salering and breeding herd. 



The foundation of Mr. Harding's phenomenal success was 

 the noted show bull and sire, Whitehall Sultan 163573. This 

 famous animal was imported in dam, being bred by J. Deane 

 Willis, Bapton Manor. His sire was an exceptionally good 

 white bull sold to the Argentine, Bapton Sultan, and his dam 

 was the Royal winner, Bapton Pearl. Of predominantly Scotch 

 bloodlines, he carried through his dam the blood of Moon Daisy, 

 of an English tribe bred by Deane Wilus' father. Many con- 

 sider the dash of English blood the foundation of his success 

 as a sire. Whitehall Sultan was born to a show world, being 

 dropped the property of E. S. Kelly, Whitehall Farm, Yellow 

 Springs, Ohio, on the state fair ground at Springfield, 111., 

 October 11, 1900. He was first shown as a two-year-old at the 

 1903 International, where he won third place to Mr. Harding's 

 Ceremonious Archer, sold for $5,000 to CoL. Lowden. White- 

 hall Sultan was forthwith purchased for Anoka Farms. In 1904 

 he was defeated by Choice Goods at the World's Fair at St. 

 Louis, but turned the tables on the latter bull at the Illinois 

 State Fair. Whitehall Sultan lived to be eleven years old, and 

 approximately 125 calves were dropped to his cover, mostly 



