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Gallant Fox

Gallant Fox (March 23, 1927 - November 13, 1954) was a United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
Thoroughbred

Thoroughbred

The Thoroughbred is a list of horse breeds best known for its use in Thoroughbred horse race. Although the word "thoroughbred" is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed....
horseracing champion.

Born at Claiborne Farm

Claiborne Farm

Claiborne Farm is located just outside Paris, Kentucky, USA, and is one of the most famous thoroughbred horse farms in the United states. The farm was founded by Arthur B....
in Paris, Kentucky

Paris, Kentucky

Paris is a city in and the county seat of Bourbon County, Kentucky, Kentucky, United States. It is part of the Lexington, Kentucky Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area....
by Sir Gallahad III

Sir Gallahad III

Sir Gallahad III was a France Thoroughbred horse racing and a very important Father in the United States.Racing at age two in France for his United Kingdom breeder/owner, Jefferson Davis Cohn, Sir Gallahad earned victory in three of his five starts but was overshadowed by the 1922 Champion colt, Epinard....
out of the mare Marguerite

Marguerite

Marguerite is the French form of a female given name which derives from the Greek for "pearl")....
, Gallant Fox was a bay colt who became the second horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown

United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing is a series of three Thoroughbred horse races for three-year-old horses run in May and early June of each year....
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Owned by the Belair Stud

Belair Stud

Belair Stud was an United States thoroughbred horse racing stable and breeding farm founded by Province of Maryland, Samuel Ogle in 1747 in Collington, Maryland, Prince Georges County, Maryland in Colonial America....
of Collington, Maryland

Collington, Maryland

Collington, Maryland is a now defunct settlement in Prince George's County, Maryland dating from Province of Maryland. Collington has been subsumed by the city of Bowie, Maryland, Maryland....
, Gallant Fox was ridden by Earl Sande

Earl Sande

Earl H. Sande was an United States National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame jockey and thoroughbred horse trainer.Born in Groton, South Dakota, Earl Sande started out as a Bronco in the early 1900's but then became a successful American quarter horse rider before switching to thoroughbred horse racing in 1918....
and trained by Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons

Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons

James Edward Fitzsimmons was a thoroughbred horse trainer.Born in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York, Fitzsimmons began his career in 1885 working at a racetrack as a stable boy....
. After a mediocre campaign as a two-year-old, he was a winner at three in 9 out of 10 races; among them the 1930 Lawrence Realization Stakes

Lawrence Realization Stakes

The Lawrence Realization Stakes was an United States horse racing first run in 1889. The race was for 3-year-old Thoroughbreds and was last run at a distance of 1? miles on grass....
, the Wood Memorial Stakes

Wood Memorial Stakes

The Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack in Jamaica, New York is an United States horse racing first run in 1925 in sports. It was named to honor Eugene D....
and the Triple Crown races: the Kentucky Derby

Kentucky Derby

The Kentucky Derby is a graded stakes race for three year-old Thoroughbreds, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival....
, Preakness Stakes

Preakness Stakes

The Preakness Stakes is an United States Graded stakes race 1-3/16 mile thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old horses, held on the third Saturday in May each year at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland....
, and the Belmont Stakes

Belmont Stakes

The Belmont Stakes is a prestigious United States Graded stakes race held yearly in June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. The race is the third and final leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, following five weeks after the Kentucky Derby, and three weeks after the Preakness Stakes....
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Gallant Fox (March 23, 1927 - November 13, 1954) was a United States

United States

Thoroughbred

Claiborne Farm

Claiborne Farm is located just outside Paris, Kentucky, USA, and is one of the most famous thoroughbred horse farms in the United states. The farm was founded by Arthur B....
in Paris, Kentucky

Paris, Kentucky

Sir Gallahad III

Marguerite

Marguerite is the French form of a female given name which derives from the Greek for "pearl")....
, Gallant Fox was a bay colt who became the second horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown

United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing is a series of three Thoroughbred horse races for three-year-old horses run in May and early June of each year....
.

Owned by the Belair Stud

Belair Stud

Collington, Maryland

Earl Sande

Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons

Lawrence Realization Stakes

Wood Memorial Stakes

Kentucky Derby

Preakness Stakes

Belmont Stakes

Jockey Club Gold Cup

The Jockey Club Gold Cup, established in 1919, is a prestigious thoroughbred horse-racing open to horses of either gender three-years-old and up....
. His only loss that year was to a 100 to 1 shot, Jim Dandy, in the Travers Stakes

Travers Stakes

The Travers Stakes is an United States Graded stakes race Thoroughbred horse race held at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.First held in 1864, it was named for William R....
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Gallant Fox was retired to stud

Horse breeding

Horse breeding refers to reproduction in horses, and particularly the human-directed process of selective breeding of animals, particularly purebred horses of a given list of horse breeds....
after the 1930 racing season and stood at stud for 22 years. Among his progeny were 1935 Triple Crown winner Omaha

Omaha (horse)

Omaha was a United States thoroughbred horse racing champion.Born at Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky, he was the son of 1930 United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winner Gallant Fox and the mare Flambino....
and Granville

Granville (horse)

Granville was an United States National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing. Owned and bred by prominent horseman William Woodward, Sr....
, Horse of the Year

Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year

The American Award for Horse of the Year is the highest honor given in United States thoroughbred horse racing. It has been awarded since 1887 to the horse, irrespective of age, whose performance during the racing year is deemed the most outstanding....
. As well, he sired Flares who in 1938 became only the second American-bred to ever win England's

England

Ascot Gold Cup

The Ascot Gold Cup is a Conditions races Flat racing Horse racing in the United Kingdom open to thoroughbreds which are four-years-old or above....
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Gallant Fox was first US Triple Crown winner to sire a second generation Triple Crown champion when his foal Omaha

Omaha (horse)

Affirmed

Affirmed was an United States thoroughbred race horse who was the eleventh winner of the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. As of 2008 in sports#Thoroughbred Horse Racing, he was the last horse to do so....
became the second when one of Affirmed's foals, Peteski

Peteski

Peteski was a Thoroughbred Thoroughbred horse race who won the Canadian Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in 1993. He was sired by the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing#United States winner, Affirmed, and was out of the mare Vive, a daughter of Nureyev ....
, won the Canadian Triple Crown

Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing

The Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing consists of three races for three-year-old thoroughbred horses. Winning all three of these thoroughbred horse races is considered the greatest accomplishment of a thoroughbred racehorse....
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Gallant Fox died on November 13, 1953, and was buried at Claiborne Farm. In 1957, he was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of United States thoroughbred horse racings, jockeys, and trainer#Trainer ....
. The The Blood-Horse magazine

The Blood-Horse magazine

The Blood-Horse is an international weekly news magazine about Thoroughbred horses, horse breeding, and horseracing. It was founded in 1916, the oldest continually published North American Thoroughbred magazine....
ranking of the top 100 U.S. thoroughbred champions of the 20th Century listed Gallant Fox at #28.