276 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 
A DIRECTOR OF SHORTHORN DESTINIES 
108. In 1903 the herd of Georce Harpine (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 Yards, Chicago, in order to permit Mr. 
Greorce Harpinc 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 HarpInc, 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. Harpinc’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 
Wituis, 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 Wiis’ 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. Ketty, Whitehall Farm, Yellow 
Springs, Ohio, on the state fair ground at Springfield, IIl., 
October 11, 1900. He was first shown as a two-year-old at the 
1903 International, where he won third place to Mr. Harpinc’s 
Ceremonious Archer, sold for $5,000 to Cot. LowpEen. 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 
