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  Triple Crown Heroes: Gallant Fox - bloodhorse.com
Gallant Fox, magnificent son of Sir Gallahad III, property of William Woodward, proved his superiority and his rightful claim to championship of the 3-year-olds when, at Belmont Park, June 7, he added the famous Belmont Stakes to his Wood Memorial, Preakness Stakes, and Kentucky Derby victories.
Gallant Fox continued to gallop along like a piece of machinery, and when the Whitney colt seemed a possible menace, Sande urged his mount slightly and the colt moved away gamely, until at the end he was three lengths clear and racing along easily.
This was Gallant Fox's first start since the Kentucky Derby, and marked his fourth consecutive victory this season, included in which are the three oldest of the stakes races for 3-year-olds.
www.bloodhorse.com /viewstory.asp?id=9706   (587 words)

  
 Gallant Fox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Gallant Fox was the bay son of the imported stallion Sir Gallahad III.
Whichone was giving Gallant Fox a run for his money when he pulled up lame.
At the end of the year, Gallant Fox went to stud.
www.cswnet.com /~terandkr/fox.html   (328 words)

  
 Triple-Crown-Betting.com | Winner horse: Gallant Fox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Gallant Fox was one of the first horses to show what direction American racing was headed for.
Gallant Fox was first US Triple Crown winner to sire a second generation Triple Crown champion when his foal Omaha won the US Triple Crown in 1935.
Gallant Fox died in 1954 and is buried at Claiborne Farm.
www.triple-crown-betting.com /horses/gallant-fox.html   (242 words)

  
 Hisorical Cameo
Gallant Fox thus became the second Triple Crown winner in chronological terms, with Sir Barton the first to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont in 1919.
Gallant Fox thus holds the distinction of being the only Triple Crown winner to sire a Triple Crown winner, and he will remain the only member of this club for a long time to come.
Gallant Fox died in 1954, and three years later, he was enshrined in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
www.brisnet.com /cgi-bin/editorial/article.cgi?print=yes&id=3209   (997 words)

  
 Road to the Triple Crown: History: Winners: Gallant Fox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Gallant Fox, racing to his outside, was making a move coming out of the far turn when Whichone went lame, giving Gallant Fox what should have been a winning edge.
At the end of the year, Gallant Fox was retired and took up stud duties, siring 1935 Triple Crown winner Omaha and 1936 Belmont Stakes winner Granville in his first crops.
Gallant Fox died on November 13, 1954, and was buried at Claiborne Stud, alongside his sire and dam.
www.thoroughbredtimes.com /tc2000/history/winners/gallantfox   (519 words)

  
 The New York Times: This Day In Sports
Three-sixteenths further, the end of the race, and Gallant Fox was the winner by three-quarters of a length and had earned $51,925.
Gallant Fox joined Sir Barton (1919) as the second winner of the Triple Crown on June 7, scoring a fourlength victory in the Belmont over Whichone.
Gallant Fox, with Earl Sande in the saddle, wearing the roses after winning the Kentucky Derby on May 17, 1930.
www.nytimes.com /packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/05.09.html   (698 words)

  
 Gallant Fox 1930
Gallant Fox devînt l'un des légendaires chevaux gagnant de la Triple Couronne, 2e, juste après Sir Barton en 1919.
Gallant Fox est né à Claiborne Farm le 23 mars 1927.
Gallant Fox eût le temps de saillir 20 gagnants de stakes avant de mourir le 14 novembre 1953 à l'âge de 26 ans.
site.voila.fr /grand-cracks/1900/30GallantFox.html   (1155 words)

  
 A dandy was Sande | The San Diego Union-Tribune
The colt was Gallant Fox, a son of imported English stallion Sir Galahad III who was born at Claiborne Farm and raised at owner William Woodward's Belair Stud in Kentucky.
Gallant Fox had only two wins from seven starts as a 2-year-old, but Fitzsimmons and Woodward saw in the blaze-faced bay colt the potential for something special as a 3-year-old.
Gallant Fox's one loss, by eight lengths to 100-1 shot Jim Dandy in the mud of the Travers Stakes in August at Saratoga, is one of the biggest upsets in racing history.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050501/news_lz1s1horses.html   (1005 words)

  
 Gallant Fox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gallant Fox (March 23, 1927 - November 13, 1954) was a United States Thoroughbred horseracing champion.
Gallant Fox was retired to stud after the 1930 racing season and stood at stud for 22 years.
Gallant Fox died on November 13, 1953, and was buried at Claiborne Farm.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gallant_Fox   (328 words)

  
 National Museum of Racing - Hall of Fame
Gallant Fox was America's second Triple Crown winner and holder of a single-season earnings record that was not surpassed for 16 years.
Gallant Fox was retired at the end of his second season.
Gallant Fox was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1957.
www.racingmuseum.org /hall/horse.asp?ID=77   (288 words)

  
 Maywood Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Fox Valley Gallant’s 1:50.3 mile was only a fifth of a second off the world record by a three-year-old pacer on a half-mile track shared by Million Dollar Cam and All American Captor.
It was another two and one-quarter to the third place finisher Fox Valley Assault (Dave Magee) in the seventh race co-feature.
When you ask him to, he just fires and is amazingly quick,” said Oosting, subbing for regular reinsman Eric Ledford who has been off all of his drives the last three nights with a severe case of stomach flu.
www.maywoodpark.com /press/index.cfm?Press_ID=806   (710 words)

  
 USA TODAY Latest news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
In all, Gallant Fox won nine of 10 races in 1930, losing only in the Travers Stakes to Jim Dandy, a 100-1 shot.
Gallant Fox and Omaha are the only father-son duo to win the Triple Crown.
Gallant Fox’s career: 17 starts, 11 wins and $328,165 in earnings.
www.usatoday.com /sports/horses/belmont/fox.htm   (157 words)

  
 TeeVee.org: Fox: The Two Faces of Rupert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Gallant Fox makes bold programming decisions, often green-lighting and airing the kind of shows other broadcast networks are too timid to touch.
Gallant Fox plans to free us from the antiquated notion of the fall-to-spring TV season, sparing us the pain of reruns by switching to a year-round schedule refreshed by new shows every couple of months.
Fox “has responded with a cure that may be worse than the problem,” declared the St. Petersburg Times’ Eric Deggans, who’s normally much more sensible about these things.
www.teevee.org /archive/2004/06/01/index.html   (2790 words)

  
 Gallant Fox III brings first responders to Pentagon
Instead, first responders from around the region had been invited by the Pentagon Force Protection Agency to participate in Gallant Fox III, an exercise preparing them to respond to a real tragedy.
As part of the Gallant Fox III exercise, armed assailants attempted to gain access to the Pentagon.
The Gallant Fox III exercise kicked off at the Pentagon at about 10 a.m.
i-newswire.com /goprint24761.html   (575 words)

  
 Thoroughbred Champions -- Championing the Horse & the Sport
Gallant Fox was bred and raced by William Woodward, of Belair Stud.
The Kentucky Derby came 8 days later, and Gallant Fox was again at near even odds.
(Gallant Fox remains the only Triple Crown winner to sire another Triple Crown winner.) Among his other famous offspring were Horse of the Year GRANVILLE (won Belmont Stakes, etc.), GANGWAY, CALUMET DICK, WILLING SPIRIT, and many others.
www.thoroughbredchampions.com /biographies/galfox.htm   (310 words)

  
 National Capital Region first responders train for Pentagon disaster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
During exercise Gallant Fox 06, officials from Washington D.C. area fire, emergency medical service, and police departments; military members; and members of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency participated in the exercise, which included decontamination and medical processing of victims of a simulated anthrax attack at the Pentagon.
This year, as part of Gallant Fox, volunteers from the American Red Cross donned battle dress uniforms and played the part of victims of an anthrax attack on the Pentagon.
Gallant Fox is an opportunity to put training to the test for those who would be first to get involved in handling a disaster situation, said Jim Aiken, a spokesman with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.
www.af.mil /news/story.asp?storyID=123020506   (1167 words)

  
 Gallant G Biography Reference
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www.iaswww.com /ODP/Reference/Biography/G/Gallant   (289 words)

  
 TIME.com: Kentucky Derby -- May 26, 1930 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
It was Sande on Gallant Fox—an amazing, disdainful thing to do, for when a jockey swings outside so early in a race it shows he does not think much of the other horses.
While Gallant Fox closed, Tannery was moving along the rail and soon these two with Alcibiades between them were running like a three-horse chariot team.
Gone Away and Gallant Knight were going strongest now, and the jockies on both of them were using the whip; Sande looked over his shoulder and gave Gallant Fox a cut, and although Gallant Fox was wide on the turn, the others, saving ground inside, did not gain.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,739348,00.html   (756 words)

  
 Harness Racing Portal - Harnesslink.com Feature Articles
Fox Valley Gallant, the fastest horse in the history of Maywood Park, cruised to a two-length victory in 1:52.1 with driver Mike Oosting at the lines Friday night on the Chicago's circuit’s
Oosting had Fox Valley Gallant sitting comfortably in fourth on the rail as the leading Les Nomades (Brent Holland) zipped to a :27.1 opening panel, followed by Papa Deck (Dave Magee) in the two-hole, and Fox Valley Devious (Tony Morgan) sitting third on the rail.
The son of Sportsmaster responded by clearing the leader to the 1:24 three-quarters, using a :27.3 brush and drew off by nearly five lengths from the rest of the field.
www.harnesslink.com /www/Article.cgi?ID=24319   (513 words)

  
 Harness Racing Portal - Harnesslink.com Harness Racing
Fox Valley Gallant and Fox Valley Devious tangle for the first time in Friday night’s (April 29) $15,250 “Broadway Jazz” Open Pace for Illinois breds as the co-favourites.
Fox Valley Gallant and Fox Valley Devious are a pair of pacers with plenty of past success at Maywood Park.
Fox Valley Gallant (8-5, Mike Oosting), fresh off a 1.51 victory at Balmoral Park, is the fastest horse in Maywood Park’s long history.
www.harnesslink.com /www/Article.cgi?ID=24250   (408 words)

  
 Horse Racing Cup - Aqueduct Race - Sportsbook and Online Casino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
By the time Gallant Fox became the second Triple Crown winner, 11 years later in 1930, the distance of both the Preakness and Belmont had been changed to its present day 1 3/16 miles and 1 1/2 miles, respectively.
The first, in 1930, was Gallant Fox, sire of the present 3-year-old champion, now indisputably at the top of his division.
Omaha was the third horse to complete the triple, Sir Barton having accomplished the feat in 1919, and was the first to be sired by a horse which had won the three events.
envivosports.com /sportsbook/horse_racing/kentucky-derby-heroes.html   (8001 words)

  
 Past Triple Crown Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
In a year he won the Triple Crown, Gallant Fox set a single-season earnings record that stood for 16 years.
Under Sande's excellent hands, Gallant Fox won the Wood Memorial by four lengths, the Preakness and the Kentucky Derby (in that order), and the Belmont Stakes by three lengths.
Gallant Fox had eight victories and a second in his nine starts during '30.
triplecrownracing.freeservers.com /catalog.html   (823 words)

  
 City of Bowie - Green Page - Projects - Gallant Fox Lane Urban Retrofit and Wetland Restoration
The two parking lots at the corner of Gallant Fox Lane and MD 197 have been used in the past by the Bowie Farmer’s Market and Bowie’s Skateboard Park (which is slated to be relocated to Allen Pond Park).
It is the expectation of DER that these Federally funded projects serve as dynamic showcases illustrating to other local governments, businesses, and residents how alternative land use practices can eliminate the need for stormwater retention ponds while beautifying neighborhoods and reestablishing natural habitats and ecological systems into developed communities.
Gallant Fox Lane was one of the three original potential project site proposed for the DER grant as well as one of two projects submitted to a very similar LID retrofit grant issued by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
www.cityofbowie.org /Green/projects/GallantURandWR.htm   (1037 words)

  
 BreyerHorses.com :: Gallant Fox Ornament
description: Gallant Fox and his jockey prepare to race as they head to the starting gate in the latest addition to this collectible series.
Not only did this great champion win the Triple Crown in 1930, but this bay stallion sired Omaha, the 1935 Triple Crown winner.
Gallant Fox is the only Triple Crown winner to boast such a feat!
www.breyerhorses.com /products/product.php?item=700166   (68 words)

  
 Earl Sande - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1923 he won 39 stakes races for Harry F. Sinclair's Rancocas Stable, ten of which were on ultimate Horse of the Year winner Zev, including the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, and a match race against England's Epsom Derby winner Papyrus.
Sande's most famous wins came aboard Gallant Fox in 1930 when he won the U.S. Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
Sande's fame was such that he was immortalized in a number of poems by Damon Runyon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_Sande   (285 words)

  
 Dance Caller Takes Gallant Fox by a Neck - New York Times
Hobeau Farm's Dance Caller, the only horse in a field of seven to wear mud caulks on Aqueduct's fast inner track, scored a neck victory over Fleet Private yesterday in the $81,900 Gallant Fox Handicap.
Dance Caller, carrying 118 pounds and Jimmy Miranda, was the favorite of the crowd of 16,238.
It was another 1 1/4 lengths back to Moro, who had led most of the way.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DB1638F932A25751C1A965948260   (116 words)

  
 MOH Citation for John R. Fox
Being greatly outnumbered, most of the United States Infantry forces were forced to withdraw from the town, but Lieutenant Fox and some other members of his observer party voluntarily remained on the second floor of a house to direct defensive artillery fire.
After acknowledging the danger, Lieutenant Fox insisted that the last adjustment be fired as this was the only way to defeat the attacking soldiers.
Lieutenant Fox's gallant and courageous actions, at the supreme sacrifice of his own life, contributed greatly to delaying the enemy advance until other infantry and artillery units could reorganize to repel the attack.
www.homeofheroes.com /moh/citations_1940_wwii/fox.html   (448 words)

  
 CBS SportsLine.com Headline - powered by Youbet.com
In Saturday's 67th renewal of the Gallant Fox, Luzzi will be aboard probable favorite Navesink River, who takes on eight rivals in the $75,000 race run over the inner track.
Loving is one of three Gallant Fox starters sent out by trainer Dominick Schettino.
Schettino also entered Nohasslatdcastle, who is still eligible for entry-level allowance conditions, and Chilly Rooster, winless in 16 starts since scoring an upset the Fort Marcy Handicap on turf in April 2004.
horseracing.sportsline.com /cbs/headlines/print.aspx?articleId=5632   (447 words)

  
 Nine Go Long in Big A's Gallant Fox - bloodhorse.com
As the days of 2004 dwindle down, one of the last chances to grab fl type on the year comes in Wednesday's $75,000 Gallant Fox Handicap (gr.
He has already run six times since arriving in the U.S. in September, and comes into the Gallant Fox off a nice third behind Snake Mountain in an optional claiming event in December.
Hydrogen also was off the board in the Queens County and has yet to win in 2004, but the son of Pleasant Colony has won at the marathon distance of 14 furlongs, which may come in handy here.
news.bloodhorse.com /viewstory.asp?id=25969   (457 words)

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