$328,165 Horse

A great bay horse in a red hood, with a white blaze on his nose, moving around a curve, down a midway, in a seemingly effortless gallop of matchless speed and strength; a jockey in a scarlet cap and white shirt splashed with great red polka dots--all season this has been the most exciting thing to be seen on U. S. tracks: William Woodward's Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up. Last week on the last day of racing at Belmont Park, L. I., Gallant Fox won his ninth great victory of the season, the Jockey Club Gold Cup. He was quoted at the unplayed odds of 1 to 25.

Gallant Fox has two more engagements this year--the Pimlico Cup and the Laionia championship. He is almost sure to be withdrawn from the Pimlico race and will not run at Latonia unless conditions are perfect. In other words, if it rains on the day of the Latonia championship (begins Sept. 27), Gallant Fox may never run again. He will be retired to William Woodward's stud at Belair, Md. A promising three-year-old in April, he has become the greatest money-winner in the history of the U. S. turf. Beside the Jockey Club's Cup he won the Wood Memorial, the Preakness, the Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes, Dwyer Stakes, Arlington Classic, Saratoga Cup, Lawrence Realization. His winnings total $328,165.

Gallant Fox would have made more money than the world's greatest money- winner--Ksar, the French horse ($335,-340)--if he had not been beaten in the Travers. Jim Dandy, California outsider, at 100 to i, beat him that day on a sodden track at-Saratoga. Someone had had a hunch about Jim Dandy, someone had guessed what he could do, for his owner, young Chaffee Earl, had pointed him all season for the Travers, had hitched his luxurious horsecar to the end of a coast-to-coast express so that he would receive every comfort. Few believe that Jim Dandy would stand much show with Gallant Fox day in & day out. Some have compared him to Man o' War, but with Man o' War's racing shadow, as it falls across the record books, Gallant Fox's shadow cannot be compared. Man o' War was faster but he won fewer big money races.

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