Dressed in Hermes returns to training, eyes Robert Lewis

ARCADIA, Calif. – Dressed in Hermes, the winner of two stakes on turf last year, has recovered from a fever that prevented him from starting in the $100,000 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita on Jan. 9.

Trainer Janet Armstrong said on Friday that Dressed in Hermes has resumed training and may start in the $150,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita on Feb. 6.

“We’ll see how he goes,” she said. “He can have a couple of works before then.”

The Grade 3 Sham Stakes was intended to be the first main-track stakes for Dressed in Hermes, who won the Zuma Beach Stakes at Santa Anita in October and the Grade 3 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes at Del Mar in November. Armstrong said she took a cautious approach when the fever was detected.

“I didn’t want to take a chance,” Armstrong said. “He looks good now. He had a slight temperature. It would have been nice to have won that race.”

Dressed in Hermes, owned by Syd Belzberg and by the Sunday Silence stallion Hat Trick, has won 2 of 5 starts and earned $162,600.