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Gallant Fox

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Gallant Fox -- “The Fox of Belair” -- second Triple Crown Winner, and sire of the third Triple Crown winner, Omaha. 

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Gallant Fox and His Memoir

Gallant Fox and His Memoir

One of the most impressive Thoroughbred racers of the 20th Century was Gallant Fox, whose racing career lasted from 1929-1930. Gallant Fox was the second horse ever to win the American Triple Crown, and the term “Triple Crown” for the Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont was popularized during his 1930 campaign.

“The Fox” was owned by William Woodward Sr.’s Belair Stud in Maryland but was foaled…

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every Triple Crown winner

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I made a Fox Faunus and a Horse Faunus specifically so I could put them in a gay relationship and call it Gallant Fox what the hell is wrong with me

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Omaha (March 24, 1932 - April 24, 1959) was a United States Thoroughbred horse racing champion. In a racing career which lasted from 1934 through 1936 he ran twenty-two times and won nine races. He had his greatest success as a three-year-old in 1935, when he won the Triple Crown. 

Omaha was not as precocious as his sire, Gallant Fox (who I profiled yesterday). Nor was he as good-looking. But he was a powerful colt who got better with age and distance, and by the time the 1935 Kentucky Derby came around on May 4, he was ready to run the race of his young life for the owner-trainer team of Woodward and Fitzsimmons.

He needed to be ready. With 20-year-old Willie Saunders in the saddle, Omaha survived a muddy Churchill Downs track and a logjam on the first turn to win the 18-horse Derby by 1 1/2 lengths. One week later, Omaha was even more impressive in winning the Preakness Stakes by six, after which he tossed in a second-place finish to Rosemont in the Withers Mile in New York.

When they met again in the more demanding Belmont, Rosemont was a distant third while Omaha took home the Triple Crown by 1 1/2 lengths from Firethorn.

And though he never enjoyed the popularity of Gallant Fox, Omaha was clearly the best colt of his generation.

To this day, Gallant Fox and Omaha remain the only father and son to win the Triple Crown. In a way, it’s a fitting status for Gallant Fox, the Father of the Triple Crown.

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"Since the retirement of Man o' War no horse has captured the imagination of the American public as has Gallant Fox...He swept like a meteor across the racing sky in 1930...He was more than a racehorse, he was an institution."

- Neil Newman, Famous Horses of the American Turf, 1930

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"So long as he had competition he would run like the wind. But as soon as he whipped everybody and got the lead, he would slow to a walk. He was a fire-eater when he had competition, though."

- Trainer "Sunny" Jim Fitzsimmons, on his Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox., who never won a race by more than four lengths. The combined margin of victory from Gallant Fox's 11 career wins was only 20 lengths