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SOMETHING OF GARRY HERRMANN. Louisville. Ky.. July 19.— Jake Marklein recently related to a few friends an interesting story of Garry Herrmann, the sire of Cant. J. T. Williams sensational two-year-old. Governor Grany. as follows: "I was training for L. V. Itell. for whom, in 1890, I had purchased quite a bunch of yearlings and in this collection was a lusty dark bay or brown colt with a long white striae in the face, by Esher. out of Silk Gown, by Longfellow, for which I paid 5*. This colt turned out to be Garry Herrmann, and shortly after I had gotten the Bell yearlings together and before I had begun breaking them I had a falling out with the New Yorker and he at once ordered a sale of all the horses. When the g. m h l -looking Esher Silk Gown Colt passed into the hands of the auctioneer I was at the ringside. Though I showed Do particular desire to bid. I had made up my mind to owli him at any cost. Someone started the colt at O0 and I bid $.1 more, and as the bidding advanced the price to o at 5 and 0 raises. I was always right there with another . finally when it reached 00 I thought 1 would try a Mull and bid at once .10. and that, odd to note, put an end to the bidding, and I got the Colt for 00 less I ban Mr. Itell had paid for him a few-weeks previous. For years Garry Herrmann, a man of affairs In Cincinnati, and myself had been close friends and I had always wished to own a colt I thought good enough to bear his name. The son of Esher and Silk Gown appealed to me as just such a colt, so I named him Garry Herrmann. In his yearling trynuts I found I had made no mistake with the colt and before I let up on him to wait until he reached the two-yen r-ohl stage to train hiin further. 1 discovered I had in him the best horse I ever owned. He ran eighteen races — think of that — as a tWO-year-Old. and then Charlie Hughes came along and paid me ftS.OOO for him for the Chicago turfman. Charles Head Smith. In the anting of his three-year old form. Mr. Hughes sold the colt for an advance of .O00 on that price to the late Capt. S. S. Brown, and he had the Kentucky Derby at his mercy until he went wrong. All told he started twenty live times as a two-year-old and only once was be outside the money, his victories at that age including the Hammond. Juvenile, Yonngstcr and Champagne stakes. "1 always craved to have the great horse back, lut when Captain Drown died and he first went on the market in 1900, lie brought 1. KoO. He was advertised to be re sold in HxiT. but all of the Be— r-ita Stud stock were withdrawn from the sale at the last moment, and he was not again on the market until the fall r 1906. I presumed he would again sell for five figures, but when I picked up a paper and saw that a man from Alberta. Canada, had booghl him for 00. I hurried to Lexington to offer him a substantial profit on that price. "On looking him carefully over I discovered he had bad ring bones, caused by bavlag been allowed to rod up and down hill in the paddocks of Senorita Farm; so I did not make an offer for him. I should have bought hiin ring bones and all. as I never doubted but that some day he would sire, a colt like Governor Cray. When I owned him. Garry Herrmann did everything I ever asked him to do and in champion style. I understand the man that bought him re sold it tin in Manitoba, and some cracking turf performers by hiin are sure to come from there, if he has access to any good mares. It is odd that Governor Cray should show up after his sire had been exiled from Kentucky, just like Garry Herrmann did after Silk Gown, his dam. had passed without a pedigree into he cotton fields of the south. She come into the market when the Breeders Association was at the height of its activity and before her mighty son scored his brilliant turf triumphs she was lost to the breeding world forever. Good judges are those same Kentucky breeders sometimes, but they surely reckoned wrong both with Garry Herrmann and his dam."
