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WELL HEELED COMING HOME * Illinois Bred Gelding Product of John Hertz* Leona Stud Farm. » Will Be Seen in Action With Other Hertz Horses During Arlington Park Meeting — Reigh Count Impresses. • Well Heeled, a well named gray, and gelded son of Royal Canopy and Golden Heels, which won at Belmont Park last Thursday, defeating a band of eighteen maidens at four furlongs and a half straightaway, is Illinois-bred, a product of John Hertz Leona Stud, the home of Reigh Count and Last Reveille. He is a prospective participant in the impending July racing of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, which will be marked by a purse distribution of between 25,000 and 50,000. The Hertz stable, upward of a score strong, will return from Belmont Park soon after the finish of the current spring meeting of the Westchester Racing Association in the course of which Risque, winner last year of a Lassie at Arlington and a Spin-away at Saratoga, has scored twice. Risque, a daughter of Stimulus and Risky, she a sister of Diapason, a famous British long distance runner and a Goodwood Stakes winner, is a Hertz candidate for the second Arlington Oaks, a 0,000 dash of one mile and a furlong, for three-year-old fillies, and the second Arlington Matron Handicap, a 5,000 affair of one mile, for fillies and mares three years old and over. Valenciennes, a daughter of Stefan the Great and Duchess Lace, which won the first Matron Handicap last season, stepping a mile in a shade better than 1:36, is a stablemate of Risques and Well Heeleds, and another second Matron prospect. Well Heeleds dam is one of the valued English mares at Leona. She is a daughter of Golden Sun, a famous sire of speed in England and Shanogue, a daughter of William the Third and Isleta, she a daughter of Isinglass and Galatia. A great English sprinter by Golden Sun was Marshall Fields filly, Golden Corn, winner of revivals at two of the Rous Memorial, Champagne, Middle Park and Fulbourne Stakes. There is a fine looking colt foal from Golden Heels at Leona this spring. The sire is Last Reveille. The racing the Hertz horses are doing at Belmont Park is intended as preparatory for Arlington. Mr. and Mrs. Hertz, who have gone East for a stay of a week or ten days, recently entertained at Leona Farm Jock Crawford, thoroughbred expert of the British Bloodstock Agency, who came to America for the recent spring sales at Lexington, where he bought several mares for European and American clients. Crawford was profoundly impressed by the growth and condition of the yearlings by various stallions, colts and fillies that will be racing next season, which he saw at Leona, also by the foals, by Reigh Count and Last Reveille mostly, that have come into being since January 1. He pronounced Reigh Count the best breeder he had found among the younger American thoroughbred stallions, and took subscriptions to him for mares owned by Sir Victor Sassoon in England, and R. S. Clark in France, to be exercised next winter. Mr. Clark, owner of Current, a Selima Stakes winner, and other more or less successful American race horses, is maintaining a stud in France. These subscriptions fill Reigh Counts book for next winter, his third season of service.
