The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-25
SPORTING news.
Garry Hermann, the Fast Two
Year-OId Chicago Colt,
Won More Races This Year
Than ANY Other of His Age.
WAS SICK SIX WEEKS.
Off Of the Track During Height
of Racing Season.
Grandest Looking Animal In
America Today.

Chicago, Dec. 25.-There. is owned in
Chicago a thoroughbred colt, Garry
Hermann by name, that horsemen con-
slider to be in several respects the most
notable horse Of his age in the world
There are two remarkable facts about
Garry Hermann, as follows:
F'irst-He won more races this year
-eighteen-than were ever captured by
a 2-year-old in this country, and what
makes this fact SO remarkable as to
stamp him as a colt beyond ordinary in
this particular is the fact that this I'M
precedented roster of victories was made
in spite of a sickness which for a week
threatened the colts life and kept him
from coming to the post for six weeks
from the middle Of August to the first
of October-in the height Of the racing
season.
Second-He is the grandest looking
and best developed colt of his age that
a man ever laid yes This is the
verdict of every accommodating
horse people as well as those who are
devoted to the thorough has
seen him at Louisville during the last
month.
Garry Hermann was bred in Ken
lucky by Kinzea Stone, who is also an
admirer of harness horses, having had
the PAGER The Admiral, 2:071z out last
season Hermann'S sire is the import
ed English stallion Esher, a son of
Derby of 1879, while his grandsire and
great grandsire were the famous race
horses Blair Athol and Stockwell. whose
achievements on the British turf in
Guineas, and the st. Leger, each of
them having won the last named event.
A pedigree expert said, having exam
ined the blood lines of Garry Hermann:
This pedigree, like that Of Iroquois, is
one of the anomalies of modern breed
ing, as it contains So per cent. of the
blood of Herod. Similar curios in the
breeding line are to be found in the
pedigrees of the imported horses Sir
Modred and Corwith, each of which has
SO per cent. Of the blood of Eclipse,
though bred from the male line of
Herod The really fine feature of this
pedigree is that it contains not only
four crosses of Sir Hercules, the best
son of Whalebone, but that it also has
four crosses of Urebs own sister to
Whalebone'
What Garry Hermann did this year as
a 2-year-old shows that the pedigree
must be full of stout blood. He began
his campaign in April south of the Ohio
river Then he came to ROby and at
tracted attention by the ease with which
he won. At Hawthorne Charles Head
Smith. the board of trade man who likes
From Hawthorne Hermann went to
Harlem, Washington Park, Saratoga
and Westchester. In this campaign he
started twenty-five times, won eigh-
teen OF MS races was second uFe
times. third once, and once unplaced
He missed the Brooklyn and Sheepshead
Bay meetings by reason of the sick
ness which kept him from the post for
six weeks, and yet in spite of this nam
dicap Of time lost, which no amount of
speed or stamina could overcome, he
won more races than any other colt of
his age has ever been credited with.
Garry Hermann is in the Louisville
and Latonia derbies, and he will of
course be extensively engaged In
stakes that close during the winter
These engagements will include the
Derby and some other stakes at Wash
tngton Park to which he is eligible.