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T N V f , , , . , J | ] I I I I 1 1 I 1 I i 1 I : IIERMIS TO HAVE A CHANCE NOTED AMERICAN HORSE IS PURCHASED BY LEADING FRENCH BREEDER. Winner of Suburban Handicap of 1904 to Take Place of Famous Flying Fox in French Establishment of Edmond Blanc. Word comes from France that M. Edmond Blanc, one of the leading breeders of Kurope. has purchased from H. M. Ziegler the thirteen-year-old American stallion, Hermis. by Hermcnce — Katy of the West. by Spendthrift, to replace in Ills stud the famous English stallion Flying Fox. recently deceased, for which 80,000 the highest juice on record for a thoroughbred, had been paid. Hermis was known to American race goers as the "little red horse." He was a hist class racer and won 4,153 during his career, his record being twenty -eight lirsts. eight seconds and six thirds out of fifty-five starts. He could hold his own at three-quarters of a mile with the fastest sprinters and he could stay equally well In lone distance contests, besides being an admirable weight carrier. Among his notable victories were the following: Suburban Handicap, 1 1-4 miles, in 2: 15. witli 127 pounds. Brighton Cup, 2 1-4 miles iu 3:53;. with 121 pounds. Cup Preliminary. 1 1-2 miles in 2:32$. witli 12»1 pounds. Test Handicap. 1 mile in 1:38, witli 183 pounds. Ocean Handicap. 1 mile in 1:39. with 127 pounds. Merchants and Citizens Handicap. 1 IS miles i;i 1:511, with 124 pounds. First Special, 1 1-4 miles in 2:0GJ, with 117 pounds. Jerome Handicap, 1 1-4 miles in 2:00i. with 12*5 pounds. Oceanview Handicap, 1 1-1C miles iu 1:48, with 120 pounds. Kdgemere Stakes. 1 IS miles iu 1:53, with 128 pounds. Brookdale Handicap. 1 IS miles in 1:52*. with 125 |«.iinds. Baraaae Handicap. IIS miles ill 1:51*. with 122 pounds. Travels Stakes, 1 1-8 miles in 1:54*. with 111 pounds. First Mamarotieck Handicap. 1 1-4 miles in 2:0Sj, with 120 pounds. Islip Handicap. 1 IS miles hi 1:52, with 132 pounds. Herinis possessed a splendid disposition. He is English-bred on one side and stoutly American on the other. II. M. Ziegler 1m. tight him as a two-year-old ; at Latonia for ,300 from Oots Bros., and after winning nearly 5,000 with him as a three-year-Old, sold him in the fall or 1902 to L. V. Bell for 5,000. In the spring of 1903. E. R. Thomas paid 1912.shiMHl » to Mr. Bell for tin- horse. His racing career ended as a six-year-old in 1905 and he made his first season in the stud at Holmdel Farm in New-Jersey in l!Hi7. At the dispersal sale of the Thomas I horses during the Hart-Agnew law agitation. H. M. Ziegbr re-purchased Hermis for the Insignificant sura of 00. Ho has sired some useful platers during his stay in the stud in America, with limited opportunity. When Hermis won the Suburban Handicap of 1904 i he defeated The Picket. Irish Lad. Proper. Major I Paingerfichl and Africander, the greatest horses of M that year. When he won the Test Handicap at dfj Brighton a little later he took up 133 pounds to Tgj ~ Beldames 115 and galloped a mile, the last quarter on three legs, over a drying Out track, iu 1:38 flat. Beldame was the fleetest three-year-old of cither sex in 1904. After Herinis defeated her in the Test Handicap at the Beach she went to Saratoga and beat The Picket. Africander and Caui;h:iawaga In the Saratoga Cup. Then she came back to New York and beat C; ughnawaga and the great three-year-old COltS Stilw.ut ami Ort Wells in the First Special at Graveaend. The following season -that of 1905 she was tin- Suburban Handicap winner at Bheepshead Bay. It is not generally known, hat a fact nevertheless, that Hermis bowed a tendon at Gravesend iu the spring of 1904, while training for the Brooklyn Handicap. He wop the Brookdale, Suburban and Test Handicaps of 1984 on that bad leg. He wai so lame after defeating Beldame in the Test Handicap that it took Jockey Arthur Bedfern ten minutes to get him back to the scales. Yet Ab Shields succeeded in bringing him to the races at Brighton iu 1905 in condition to take up 132 pounds and win the Islip Handicap, oue mile and an eighth, in 1:52. Hermis is already in France, whither he was transferred recently on account of aati racing legislation iti this country.
