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Garry Owen (registered name George Hakes) is one of six horses to have won the Maryland Hunt Cup three times, twice when it was still a race open only to Maryland hunt club members, and once after it was opened to all U.S. and Canadian hunt club members. He also ran the race in 1900, when he fell, and in 1906, when he placed second to a close relative, Princeton, another three-time winner of the Cup. He was an accurate jumper, and a stayer with "quite a turn of speed." His grandsire, Vandal, by Glencoe and out of a mare by the very stout imported Tranby, was a good stayer who won matches over three mile distances, and his sire, Versailles, was from a long-established American mare family. Garry Owen's dam, Stella, was by Jack Hardy, who was a King Tom sire line horse; her second dam, Aurelia Westheimer, was by African, an arabian listed in the American Stud Book, her dam was Puss whose further pedigree can not be traced. |
