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Show - America Gains a Great Horse. New YoHKj'November 12. St. Blaize, the stallion recently bought for Aagust Belmont in England at the reported price of $20,000, arrived here Friday on the Bteamship "Holland". "Hol-land". St. Blaiza is a rich ohedinut in color, j stands sixteen hands and half an inch in hight, and is finely proportion!. He has a white strip in the face, and hia left legs are white, the forward one nearly to the knee and the hind one nearly to the hook. There is also a ring of white about the coronet of the right hind foot. St.Blaia la to be put at the head of the Belmont breding establishment estab-lishment at Lexington, Kentucky, jle is a son of Hermit, , the Derby winder In 1867, who for years headed the bus of winning English sires. St. Blaize won the Derby in 1883, and is the only Derby wir- sired by a Derby winner that has ever 1 A England for America. Although bred fr? speed on both sides, he is not what might fes called a sensational performer. . |