Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-10-09
Death of the Famous Racer Her
HOg-Hfs Pediqree.

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xog-His Pedigree.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 29.1
| There is not turfman in Americe
who will not learn with sorrow and regre
this morning of the death of the famout
race horse Herzog. This event took
place about four o'clock yesterday morn
ing at the stables of the Buckeye Race
Course, near this city. The announce
ments which have appeared in the city
papers for several days past have no,
, altogether left the public unprepared fol
this intelligence. 4r
On Tuesday last Herzog ran in the
opening race of the Fall meeting at this
course and won it. 1t was sweepstakes
race for three year olds for purse oil
$1,000, and there were entered against
him such horses as Versailles, Pompey
Payne, Alta Vela, and John Kilgour.
The first heat was won by Versailles in
l:43f. and Herzog came out third. Her
zog then won the second third heats in
succession in l:44f and l:463. Hundreds
of people had gone to the course to seethe
little king, and it was expected that be
would make better time than he bad
ever made before. But it was evident to
all who saw him, and were familiar with
horses, that he was not ;n good condition.
He did not display either his usual spirit
or activity, nor did his time come up to
general expectation. That night he was
taken sick with what appeared severe
cold or catsrrh, but which afterward
proved to be typhoid pneumonia. But
lottle hope was entertained OF his recov-
cry; and notwithstanding he had the best
veterinary aid the country afforded, be
continued to grow worse, and yesterday
morning the pride of the American turf
ceased to exist He died upon the scene
which witnessed his great triumph. On
the very day that he ran bis last race,
Major Thomas, his owner, was offered
SIC, 900 for him, but he refused it. He
valued him at $4,000, and would have
taken that amount for him. Such was
the reputation and fame of Herzog, that
slight sketch of him, and his history,
may not prove uninteresting.
1t was at the spring meeting of 1869,
on the Buckeye course, that Herzog
made the celebrated time which has rem
de.ed him famous the world oyer. l.
was on the first day of the meeting. 1t
was a sweepstake race for three-year old
colts and FLIES, for purse of 5000. The
entries were Herzog, John Mcintyre, Joe
Shaw, Mickey Free, Barney Williams,
Blarney Stone, Bonnie Scotland and
Wilkes Booth. Herzog was the favorite
against the field We append descrip-
ton of the second heat of that race:
killarney Stone shot ahead at the
drum tap and made q splendid burst for
the first turn, but the mighty strides of
the little favorite were too much for him,
and in the second quarter he was second,
in which position he was led, with the
field struggling after into the third
quarter. When they reached the fourth,
Mickey Free brushed up, and in the
home stretch took his old place as sec.
ond, But none could come up to the
flank of the glorious winner, who passed
under the string, after making the mile
in l:433-the fastest time on record"
Herzog was owned by Major B. G.
Thomas, of Lexington, KY, the business
manager of the Observer and Reporter,
of that city. He was by Vsndal, and was
foaled in 1866. At the time of his death
he was about three and half years OF
age, and was light-colored bay, full ff-
teen hands and two inches in height.
There was no white about him, save few
white hairs in the forehead. He had a
Vandal Glencoe head, we'll set on rather
long neck, running into well-inclned
shoulders. He had great depth through
the girth and heart, good barrel, and ribs
back well. He possessed great length
from the point of the hip to the whirhone.
thence to the ground. His limbs were
clean and well set under him. he was a
colt of exquisite action, being 1.-THE and
capable of variety of action. When he
was foal be had the misfortune to lose
the tips Of his ears by frost, and but for
this he would have been handsome and
striking horse.
The following pedigree shows him to
have been inesl descendant of the finest
race of horses in the known world, and
that be was truly what his owner claimed
him to be-the best bred horse in Amer
lea. The pedigree which Major Thomas
has in his possession runs back into the
year 1900.
First dam, Dixie, by imp. Sovereign
I'd dam, Elk Mary, by Hamlet; Sd dam,
imp. Camp, by Langar; 4th dam, Wire,
by Wsxy; 9th dam, Penelope, by Trum-
pstor; 9th dam, Prunells, by HigbAyer;
7th dam, Promise, by Snap; 9Th dam,
Julia, BY Blank; 9th dam, Spectator
dam, BY Panther; 10th dam, Bonnie
Lass, by Bay Bolton; llth dam, by Oar
ley's Arabian; 18th dam, by Byerly
Turk; 18th dam, by Tstfolet Barb; l4th
dam, by Places White Turk; 18th dam,
q Natural Barb Mare.
The time made by Herzog upon the
Buckeye Course last spring was the
fastest officially recorded time in the
world. 1t is, perhaps, not generally
known that in England and elsewhere ne
official record is kept on turf time.
Wakes Spirit says that the famous
French horse Gladiateur, the winner of
the Derby, made mile in E39; but the
has no official existence, and
is not generally accepted. Even granting
that Gladiateur did make the time ac-
corded TO him, it leaves Herzog second
only 10 him, and. at all events, in the
turf annals of America Herzog will
be credited with the fastest time. |