William Woodward had a plan for 1930: Gallant Fox would go for the Belmont Stakes and then certainly would make an appearance at Saratoga for the prestigious stakes races there. All of the Fox’s other races would be dependent upon his condition, but those stakes races were definitely on the list no matter what. That Gallant Fox won the Preakness Stakes and then the Kentucky Derby before the Belmont Stakes happened only because he was fit and ready. “It is called winning the triple crown,” Woodward remarks in his memoir on Gallant Fox, an understated assessment of what the Fox had done to that point. After six straight stakes wins, including the Dwyer and the Arlington Classic, Gallant Fox had come to Saratoga to tick two more races off his list, including the Travers Stakes.
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