Fitz Herbert
Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Fitz Herbert (1906 – 1926)[1] was an American Thoroughbred National Champion racehorse. Bred by Perry Belmont, he was owned by trainer A. J. Joyner, who sold him in early 1908 to Herman Brandt for $3,500. Later that year, Brandt sold the colt to trainer Sam Hildreth.
For Hildreth, he was ridden by jockey Cal Shilling and was retrospectively awarded back-to-back United States Horse of the Year titles. His major victories came in long races, something his trainer specialized in. In the 1909 Lawrence Realization Handicap, the horse set a world record for a 1-5/8 mile race. His race record in 1909 was fifteen starts with fourteen wins and one second. His only loss came to a filly named Affliction.[2] Lightly raced in 1910, he won two races and finished second in his other two starts.[3]
In a deal described by The New York Times as the "biggest sale in years," in February 1910 Hildreth sold Fitz Herbert for $40,000 to Charles Kohler, owner of Ramapo Stock Farm in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. Due to the legislated ban on parimutuel betting by the state of New York, a few weeks later Fitz Herbert and other horses owned by Kohler were shipped to stables at Maisons-Laffitte Racecourse in France where he was conditioned to compete in steeplechase racing. Fitz Herbert later stood at stud at Clarence MackayTemplate:'s Haras de Fresnay farm in Normandy, where he had some success.[4]
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