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PRIZE WINNING DESCENDANT OF HERMIT One of the bestbred young thoroughbred stallions to gain a reccnt Newmarket premium was BIrd of Paradise by St Angelo from Ornls a Jlend Or mare the gramldam being Shotover which was by Her mit There was tenderness In the touch of Mr Henry Chaplin when he ran Ids hand over the back of Bird of Paradise as he stood in the ring Mr Chaplin won 500000 over Hermit when he secured the 1S07 Derby in tho snowstorm but it is alleged that lie did not receive half of it Live Stock Journal