Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-02

Following the Belmont, Gallant Fox scored
an easy victory in the Dwyer Stakes. The horse
was doing well that we decided to ship him
to Chicago and try for the American classic,
run at the Windy City's newest and most elab-
crate race course. Gallant Knight, that had
run second in the Derby. put up a better fight
there than he had at Churchill Downs, but it
wasn't good enough to win. He was a much
better colt than had expected to meet.
I don't think the American classic was GAL
liant Fox's best race. In fact, know very well
it wasn't. and we wouldn't have been a bit
afraid to have met Gallant Knight for the third
time in the Latonia championship The Audley
Farm people, following the American Classic,
expressed great confidence in their colts ability
to beat ours, but am just as satisfied that CAL
liant Fox would have hung it on him again.
Unfortunately, both colts were retired, SO the
question win never be settled. But the honors
remain with Gallant Fox
a FTER Chicago came the Travers Derby.
Never has Saratoga's beautiful course held
such a crowd of racing enthusiasts all of them
worked up to fever pitch in expectation of the
battle between the two three year old cham
pions, Gallant Fox and Whichone. What q
hzzle the race turned out to be. After Gallant
Fox and Whichone had raced each other into
the ground on the muddy track the despised
outsider, Jim Dandy, that went out at odds Of
100 to L. came from behind and won. 1t was
just an example of the glorious uncertainty OF
the turf.
Our big bay came back in his next start and
won the Saratoga Cup in a gallop, and then we
began getting him ready for the Lawrence
Realization Stakes at the fall meeting at Bel
mont Park. However he may have won his
other races, Gallant Fox had the battle of his
life to win the Realization. James Buffers colt,
QUESTIONABLE. was great horse that day and
it was only after terrific struggle that Gallant
Fox got the verdict bV a nose
QUESTIONABLE was the one that set the pace
and what a pace it was. Sande rode with good
judgment and held off the pace when he found
it too fast. He kept two lengths back of
QUESTIONABLE until he reached the turn for
home. There he closed the gap.
The straight at Belmont is the longest we
have on any of our courses with the exception
Of AQueduct, and from the home turn right ON
down to the judges stand the colts staged their
epic battle. Gallant Fox, on the outside, had
been forced q bit wider than was necessary by
Workman, who had the mount on Question
naire, but the big bay quickly recovered the lost
ground. And, locked together nose TO nose, the
two colts fought it out, foot by foot and inch
by inch. With the air filled with frenzied
din from the packed stands the two horses
reached the wire so close together that no one
but the placing judges knew the winner.
When the numbers went up on the board
heaved a sigh of relief and wiped the perspira-
ton from my forehead which nowadays goes q
long way back. But the placing wasn't made
official for a few minutes. Workman had
entered protest claiming that he had been
crowded. 1t was quickly dismissed and the red
official square was slapped up under Gallant
Fox's number.
1t was great race-the greatest I've seen in
my lifetime on the turf And that opinion is
shared by hundreds who have grown gray
haired watching the greatest of all sports
Then came the Jockey Club Cup-Gallant
locf No id1o,f or tho
but in winning that event he was making his
last appearance on the turf. 1t was an easy
victory.
He is the second great horse that has left our
stable in the last season. Early in the year
Diavolo, one of the greatest distance runners
the American turf has ever SEEN showed that
he wouldn't stand training any longer and he
was retired to the stud. A big, good-looking
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