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FITZ HERBERT TO GET A REST. New York, July 15. Fitz Herbert probably will not again be seen under colors until the Saratoga meeting opens. In consequence of the campaign in which he has figured during the past two months and which resulted in" an unbroken string of victories in the Pocantieo Handicap. Broadway Stakes, Advance Stakes. Coney Island Jockey Club Stakes, Suburban Handicap and Lawrence Realization, he is somewhat lighter than when he first faced the barrier at Belmont Park in the spring. But he still weighs about 1,050 pounds. Fitz Herbert is a fine figure of a horse after the old-fashioned model. His best points are superb shoulders, which are oblique and admirably muscled, bis short back, his great depth "through the heart" and his big. well-shaped head. And on top of all this he is sound and docile. Fitz Herbert was not babied as a two-year-Old. Jack Joyner made an effort early in March. 100S. to get Fitz Herbert readj- for the Oxnard Dinner Stakes at Benning. Fitz Herbert was ready to run when he bucked his shins. Joyner was not careful of the colt because he did not believe that Fitz Herbert would be a first-class horse. Mr. Joyner sold Fitz Herbert to Herman Brandt In May. lftOS. for ,500. He afterward offered Brandt $.1,000 for his bargain that is to say. ,500 to send the colt back to hlin. Brandt declined to sell to Joyner and got 0,000 for the colt from John Madden and Sam Hlldreth. Mr. Illldreth bought Mr. .Maddens interest for ,000 last fall just before he started for California, ne offered to buy or sell, as Madden desired. Madden sold, partly because Fitz Herbert had not, after coining down from Saratoga, run as well as he Madden expected, and partly because he had a stable full of horses of his own breeding. 1 ! . : ,
