The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-14
LITTLE RED HORSE"
IS TAKEN TO FRANCEl
Ziegler Got Back $4,000 for
the $4,000 He Paid
for HIermis.
WON RACES ON BAD LEG
Captured Famous Handicap
Prizes Despite Fact That
He Was Lame.
WON RACES ON BAD LEG

Word comes from France that NJ. Ed
nlond Blanc, ono OF the leading breed
ers of Europe, has purchased from n.
NJ. Ziegler the thirteen-year-o Ameri-
can stallion Hermis, by Hermence-
Katy of the West, by Speudthrift. to
replace in his stud the famous English
stallion Flying Fox, recently deceased,
for which $4,000, the highest price
on record for Thoroughbred, bad been
paid
Hcrmis was known to American race
goerS as the ''ijttle, red horse. lie
was hrst.class racer and won $s4,l ,l55
during his career, his record being
twenty eight hrsts, eight seconds and
six thirds out of fifty FIVE starts. lie
could hold his own at three. quarters OF
a mile with the fastest sprinters and he
conId stay equally well in long distance
contests, besides being an admirable
weight carrier. Among his notable vic
tories were the following:
Suburban handicap, one aud one
fourth miles in 2;05, with l27 pounds.
Brighton cup. two and ouc-fourth
|
Cup preliminary, one and oue-halt
| miles in 2;32 l-J, with 126 pounds.
Test handicap, one mile IN t:3s, with
i33j pounds.
Ocean handicap, for one mile in 1850,
with l27 pounds.
Merchants AMI Citizens handicap,
one and onc-eighth miles in l:5l 30,
with I2I pounds.
| First special. one and oue-1narter
| IL, yrifb
Jerome handicap. one and One-fourth
miles in 2:06 II. with 126 pounds.
Occanvicw handicap, one and ouc-si1-
tcenth miles In Las. with l26 pounds.
Edeemere stakes. one and Que eighth
miles IN l;53. with l26 pounds,
Brookdale handicap. one and orc.
eighth miles in 1;je Is, with Ia
| pounds.
Saranac handicap. one and one eighth
miles in 1:51 %, with 122 pounds.
Travcrs stakes, one and oue-clgnth
miles in "a 4-5. with LII pounds.
First Mamaroneck handicap, ono and
ouc-fourth miles in 2:0s Il. with l25
pounds. =
Islip handicap. one and ouc.cigbth
miles in 80, with 49, pounds.
Hcrms possessed splendid disposi-
ton lie is English bred on one side
and stoutly American on the other, ".
NJ. LleHlSG DOugUb uliH dS al Nho
old at Latonia for $4,000 from Oots
Brothers, aud after winning nearly SO.
900 with him as three year-old. sold
him in the fall of 1902 TO Il. Y, Bell for
$4,000, In the spring of 1908. l.. II,
Thomas paid $60,0 900 to Mr.. Bell for the
horse. His racing career ended as.
Sky year-old in 1905, and he made his
first season in the stud at Holmdel farm
IN New Jersey in 1907. AZ the dis
IL I,. a rf,,,.
the Uart-Acnew law agitation. II. nj.
ZiepIer repurchased Hcrmis for the in
significant sum Of $500 He has sired
some useful pIatcrs during his stay in
the stud in America, with limited op-
portuuitv,
When Hermis Won the Suburban ban
dicap of 1904. he defeated The Plckef,
Irish Lad. Proper, Major Daingerheldi
and Africauder, the greatest horses OF
| that year. When he won the Test ban
licap at Brighton a little later be took
| ualloped a mile, the Jast quarter on
throe legs. over drying out track, III
three-year-od Of either sex in lgoi.
After Hermis defeated her in the Test
| handicap at the beach. she went 10
Saratoga and beat The Picket, afr'-
cander and Caughnawaea in the sara
| toga cup. Then she came back to New
| York and beat C8uGhna"aGa aud W.
] great three ye3r-old colts Stalwart ana
| Ort Wells in the First Special at Grave,
send The following season-that OF
1905 ~-she was the Suburban handicap
winner at Sheepshead bay.
| IL is not generally known, but iaet
nevertheless, that Hcrmis bowed ten
don ut Gravescnd in the spring OF l9u!,
while training for the Brooklyn handi-
cap. lie won the Brookdale. SUBURBAN
and Test bnndicaps of 1904 on that pad
leg. He was SO lame after defeating
Beldame in the Test handicap that 10
took Jockey Arthur Redferu ten MN
utes TO get him back TO the scales. 1et
Alex Shields succeeded in bringing bini
10 the races at Brighton in 1905 in con
dition to take up l32 pounds and WIN
the lsl,p handicap, one mile and AN
eighth, in log.
! lTcrmis is already in France, whittier
he was transferred recently on account
of antiracing legislation in this coun'
| try.