| Gallant Fox is a famous American race horse that | | | | winner a race horse must successfully stave off |
| is best known for being one of only eleven horses | | | | all opposing horses and race to victory in the final |
| to ever win the coveted United State Triple | | | | three races of the season for top tier |
| Crown of Thoroughbred Racing. Although Gallant | | | | thoroughbreds. The three races that conclude the |
| Fox passed away over fifty years ago his legacy | | | | racing season for high caliber horses are held |
| lives on every May and June when eager jockeys | | | | within a five week span in Louisville, Kentucky, |
| and anxious horses fill the gates for the coveted | | | | Baltimore, Maryland, and Elmont, New York. These |
| Triple Crown races held in Kentucky, Maryland, | | | | are the most widely known races in the sport of |
| and New York. | | | | American horse racing and even casual sports |
| The horse named Gallant Fox was born on March | | | | fans that know nothing else about horse racing |
| 23, 1927 in the small city of Paris, Kentucky. As | | | | are at least somewhat familiar with the concept |
| the son of an accomplished French Thoroughbred | | | | of the Triple Crown Award and have heard of at |
| named Sir Gallahad III the young colt from Paris, | | | | least one of the three races that make up the |
| Kentucky was bred to be a champion caliber | | | | closing circuit. |
| racehorse. Despite the strong breeding even the | | | | The three races that must be won in consecutive |
| most optimistic supporters of this young horse | | | | order for a Triple Crown accomplishment are the |
| would have never predicted that in eight years he | | | | Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and the |
| would not only become the second horse ever to | | | | Belmont Stakes. These races are of varying |
| win the prized Triple Crown but furthermore that | | | | lengths with the shortest of the three being |
| his named would frequently be discussed in the | | | | 1.1875 miles (the Preakness Stakes) and the |
| twenty-first century as one of less than a dozen | | | | longest being the Belmont Stakes with a length of |
| thoroughbreds to ever accomplish the feat. | | | | 1.5 miles. Gallant Fox successfully navigated this |
| In order to be awarded the title of Triple Crown | | | | treacherous course of events in 1935. |