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OFFSPRING OF GALLANT FOX Juvenile by American Champion in Woodwards English String. 1 Son3 ot Sir Gallahad IIL Included Omaha, One of Kentucky Derby Favorites, In His First Crop. Gallant Fox, gleaner of 28,165 in two seasons of campaigning, which Lord Derby, who had seen him win a Kentucky Derby in May, pronounced in the autumn of 1930 the smarest three-year-old of his time, is the sire of one of the three juveniles that will bear the silks of William Woodward, chairman of The Jockey Club and proprietor of the Belair Stud, in England this coming season, .and may start in the Epsom Derby of 1936. Sir Gallahad III., daddy of Gallant Fox, also of High Quest, Gallant Sir, The Scout, Sir Andrew, Insco, Betty Derr, Flying Gal, - Sir Ashley, Motto, Sarada, Hadagal, Happy Gal, etc., is responsible for the other two. Victor in renewals of the Wood Memorial, Kentucky Derby, Freakness, Belmont, Dwy-er, Arlington Classic, Saratoga Cup, Jockey Club Gold Cup and Lawrence Realization, Gallant Fox picked up 08,275 in 1930 and set an all-time record for earnings in a single season for a thoroughbred of any age. If he had been kept at racing for a couple more seasons as he well might have been he probably would have knocked off with half a million to his credit. He won about 0,000 in trophies. OMAHA IN FIRST CROP. The iirst two-year-olds claiming this brilliant stallion, which Woodward bred and raced and still owns, came to racing last season. One of them, "a stalwart chestnut named Omaha, is the most promising three-year-old of the Belair string. Moreover, in the opinion of many shrewd judges, he is: a potential champion. The Gallant Fox two-year-old that will be racing in England presently under the opposite name of Flares, his mother being Flambino, is Omahas own brother. Also he is a half brother of Fleam, winner last year . of renewals of the Acorn Stakes and the New Hampshire and Continental handicaps, likewise of Flamborough, a brisk two-year-old of three seasons ago which did not stand training for big things at three. A stout family, this. Flambette, the dam of Flambino, foaled at Belair, the countrys oldest thoroughbred nursery, won revivals of the Coaching Club American and Latonia Oaks and, beside Flambino, foaled Flaming, a stake winner in England as well as in this country. Durbar II., Epsom Derby winner of 1914, got Flambette from La Flambee, also La Rablee, which foaled The Scout. The Scout, winner i in England of a Newmarket and a Knows- J ley Dinner Stakes and a Yorkshire Cup, is serving with Sir Gallahad IIL and Gallant Fox at Arthur Hancocks Claiborne Stud, in Kentucky, and he is represented in the cur-. rent seasons two-year-old racing by the ! California winner, Lord Gallant. A. B. Han-cock bred Lord Gallant. OTHER TWO-YEAR-OLD WINNERS. Gallant Fox other two-year-old winners last season were Gallant Prince, victor in the Maplewood Handicap, at Rockingham; Jeanne S., Gallant Miss, Palma, South Gallant, Calumet Dick and Happy Hunter. Thruster, another of his first crop, did not get to the post last season, but he won at the second asking in Florida in January. Calumet Dick, half brother of Nimba, she a Lawrence Realization and Metropolitan Handicap winner, is the most promising three-year-old of the stable of Warren Wright, of Chicago. Marshall Field bred Calumet Dick. One of the Sir Gallahad III. juveniles in England, Orangeman, from Moira Rhu, she a daughter of Star Hawk and Medora, is of the running family of Equipoise, Distraction, Little Chief, Sir Ashley, David Bone, King Nadi, Ard Patrick, Galtee More, Mediant, Blondin, Swinging and Ballantrae. Moira Rhu is a half sister of Little Chief, he a Belair product, which won at all distances in all parts of the country. Sir Amos, from Gravitate, she a half sister of Aga Khan, is a. brother of Sir Andrew. Sir Amos ought to go far. Sir Andrew won renewals in England, under Woodwards silks, of the Newmarket and Princess of Wales stakes, gallops of one mile and a quarter and one mile and five furlongs, respectively, and finished third to Sandwich and Orpen in the 1931 St. Leger. Aga Khan galloped a mile and a quarter over the Jamaica course in 2:01 in a Pier-repont Handicap not long after winning the 1924 Lawrence Realization at Belmont Park. Captain Cecil Boyd-Rochfort is handling the Belair string at Newmarket and he is one of Great Britains most capable trainers. Last year with Alcazar, a son of Achtoi and the Belair-bred Priscilla Carter, he won for Woodward renewals of the Chesterfield, Penryhn and Doncaster Cups, the Norman Court Stakes and the Great Abor Handicap. Many hold that Alcazar is the best stayer in England. In the Chesterfield Cup he licked Wychwood Abbot and the latter subsequently won a Cambridgeshire Handicap. Priscilla Carter, a daughter of Omar Khayyam and The Reef, is a half sister of Pris-, cilia Ruley, winner in this country of renewals of the Jerome, October and Bronx-ville handicaps and the Alabama, Mt. Kisco and Gazelle stakes. She beat Princess Do-reen in her Alabama, Mad Play and Initiate in her Jerome. Her granddam, Pyramid, was a half sister of Priscillian and Strom-boli. With Bondsman, a son of Sir Gallahad III. and Bonnie Maginn, Boyd-Rochfort won revivals of the Knowsley Dinner Stakes and the Fairfield Plate. He did not win with the three-year-old Black Devil, but that son of Sir Gallahad III. and La Palina finished second to Bright Bird in a Princess of Wales Stakes, one mile and a half; second to Berestoi in a King Edward VII. Stakes, one mile and a half, and second to Autumn in an Irwell Plate, one mile and a quarter. Woodwards candidates for the coming English three-year-old classics the 2,000 Guineas, Derby and St. Leger are Fresh Fox and Spinner. Eresh Fox Is a son of Gallant Fox and Filante, hence a half brother of Gaffsman, Frisius, Friendly Gal and, Filemaker, also of the dam of Canfli, she an Arlington Oaks and Covington Handicap winner. Fresh Fox did not win last season, but was a keen contender in several stake revivals. Spinner has not. started.
