Victory Gallop was a sterling racehorse. He put the first blemish
on a reigning Horse of the Year, and later stopped immortality from placing its
mark on another horse's brow; but his rightful place in history was a
cumulative process of three campaigns, more than three million dollars in
earnings, a championship, and ultimately induction into the racing hall of fame
in his home country.
This is one writer's account of a beautiful story.
One of the modern dominant sirelines descending from Phalaris (GB) is the Native Dancer line, of which Victory Gallop is a fifth generation descendant. Bred by Ivan Dalos at Tall Oaks Farm, in Ontario, Canada, the horse is inbred to Native Dancer 5Sx5D, Almahmoud 5Dx5D, and Turn-To 5Dx5D.
Sire - Cryptoclearance - Dark bay or brown horse - b.1984
Cryptoclearance, by Florida-bred multiple stakes winner Fappiano,
out of the Hoist the Flag mare Naval Orange, made forty-four racing starts, and
posted wins or placings in several key route contests, namely the Florida
Derby at age three, 1 1/4 mile Hawthorne Gold Cup as a four-year-old, and Donn Handicap at five. He recorded placings in the Preakness, Travers, first Donn, Jockey
Club Gold Cup, and Whitney Handicap. As a stallion, Cryptoclearance fathered
more than 1,200 foals, over 1000 starters, with 40 black-type winners, and
overall progeny earnings of $54 million. His other notable children included
Arkansas and Louisiana Derby winner Crypto Star, Blue Grass Stakes victor
Millennium Wind, and Volponi, who captured the Breeders' Cup Classic in 2002.
Cryptoclearance was bred to approximately 35-40 mares sired by Vice Regent,
including Cuddle Up Closer, a Canadian-bred bay mare, who produced
Cryptocloser, Canada's Sovereign Champion Three-Year-Old Male in 1997.
Broodmare sire - Vice Regent - Chestnut horse - b.1967
A son of Northern Dancer-Victoria Regina, Vice Regent had a brief
race career but then excelled in the stud, leading Canada's sire list thirteen
times and producing sixty stakes winners including Deputy Minister and the
filly Ruling Angel, both named Sovereign Horse of the Year in 1981 and 1986
respectively. Deputy Minister was also an Eclipse Two-Year-Old Champion Male,
and later an outstanding sire, his progeny including two-time Eclipse Champion
Go For Wand, and Breeders' Cup Classic winner and prominent sire Awesome Again.
Deputy Minister was also broodmare sire of more than 100 stakes winners.
Second dam - Glass House - Dark bay mare - b.1979
The New York-bred, black-type winner Glass House had been bred to
Deputed Testimony, a bay horse, who in 1983 won the Preakness and Haskell
Stakes. After this mating, the pair produced the bay filly Don't Throw Stones
in 1986. Don't Throw Stones, a Maryland-bred like her sire, was a winner from
forty-seven starts.
In tail-female line, five generations removed, Victory Gallop
descended from Log House, a brown mare born in 1956.
The second through fifth dams were not illustrious like the sires;
however, each dam was sired by a notable horse. Glass House was sired by Halo,
the sire of Sunday Silence. Glass Collector, was in turn sired by First Landing,
1958 American Champion Two-Year-Old Male and also the sire of dual classic
winner and two-time champion Riva Ridge. The fourth dam, Masked Kiss, was by
the great American Horse of the Year Damascus, while the fifth dam, Log House,
was sired by multiple stakes winner Cosmic Bomb, whose own sire, Pharamond
(GB), was a half-brother to British immortal Hyperion (GB) and full brother to
leading sire Sickle (GB), the latter who also appears in Victory Gallop's tail-male line.
The offspring of Glass House and Vice Regent was Victorious Lil.
The Dam - Victorious Lil - Bay mare - b.1989
Victorious Lil was a winner from twenty-seven Canadian starts, including the La Prevoyante Stakes. Among her six other foals, known to this writer, were black-type placed Run to Victory by Eclipse Two-Year-Old Champion Male Gilded Time, and Victorious Laurie, by Giant's Causeway, and a winner from eleven starts.
Victorious Lil was a winner from twenty-seven Canadian starts, including the La Prevoyante Stakes. Among her six other foals, known to this writer, were black-type placed Run to Victory by Eclipse Two-Year-Old Champion Male Gilded Time, and Victorious Laurie, by Giant's Causeway, and a winner from eleven starts.
The foal
Victorious Lil produced her champion in the very first breeding,
made with Cryptoclearance. After their affair, a bay colt was born on May 30,
1995, at Joanne Clayton's Darrowby Farms, and given the name Victory Gallop. The young horse was quite attractive with an abundance of energy.
Beginnings
Victory Gallop grew into a beautiful sixteen hand horse, with a
star on his forehead and snip on his muzzle. Dr. E.C.
"Pug" Hart and his wife Susan Hart bought Victory Gallop as a
yearling from Tall Oaks, then broke and trained the horse, racing him through
his two-year-old season of 1997, a campaign which earned him $124,800. First
conditioned by Mary Eppler, the juvenile made five starts beginning on July 20,
covering five furlongs in a Maiden Special Weight at Delaware Park, where he
finished fifth in a field of eight, after rallying late, a style which would typically be his custom. The colt then proceeded to win his next
three outings, an eight length romp over seven rivals in a seven furlong test
at Laurel Park, before annexing two stakes contests at Colonial Downs, the seven furlong New Kent
Stakes on September 1, and the mile Chenery Stakes on October 11. He next
negotiated Laurel's 1 1/8 mile Futurity, endured a wide trip, and finished
second to Fight for Milady, after advancing from fourth in a field of six. His
first campaign over, he had posted three wins and a second.
Transition
In November the Harts sold Victory Gallop to Prestonwood Farm in
Versailles, Kentucky, owned by Art, Jack, and J.R. Preston, the trio who had
also owned two-time Breeders' Cup Mile winner Da Hoss. Elliott Walden would now
be the horse's trainer. Victory Gallop contracted a cough and made his
sophomore debut later, in the grade 3 Rebel Stakes, at Oaklawn Park, on March
21, in a field of ten. A prep race for the Arkansas Derby (gr. 2), it was
contested at 1 1/16 miles. Eibar Coa was in the irons, and despite losing his
whip, horse and rider won by a head after a stretch duel with longshot Robinwould.
The finishing time was 1:44 3/5, after splits of :23 1/5, :47 3/5, and 1:13 1/5
on the fast track. Victory Gallop earned his first triple digit Beyer speed
figure of 105, and for the duration of his career, these numbers would stay
over 100.
Arkansas Derby
The 1 1/8 mile Arkansas Derby, on April 11, had a field of
nine three-year-olds, with a purse of $500,000. Alex Solis would ride Victory
Gallop and the pair would break from post position five. In post eight was the
2-5 favorite and reigning Horse of the Year Favorite Trick, only the second
two-year-old, after Secretariat, to earn American racing's highest year-end
Eclipse honor. Pat Day was the only jockey Favorite Trick ever knew, and under
his skillful hands, the colt had posted a perfect eight for eight campaign the
previous year which included six stakes, culminating with a victory in the
Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Sired by Phone Trick out of the Medieval Man mare Evil
Elaine, the dark bay/brown colt Favorite Trick had been conditioned by Patrick Byrne and was now under
the handling of Bill Mott. He had extended his unbeaten record to nine wins
with a victory in the seven furlong Swale Stakes (grade 3) at Gulfstream Park
on March 14, to begin his campaign toward a run in the Triple Crown
races.
When the field was sent off, Favorite Trick, under 122 pounds, got the jump, moving fast with a quarter in :22.2, as Battle Royale sparred with him for the lead. The half was done in :46 and Victory Gallop, also under 122, was the eighth horse back. With six furlongs in 1:10.4, Favorite Trick inched ahead, keeping his position rounding the far turn as Robinwould and Victory Gallop closed in. In deep stretch Victory Gallop and Hannuman Highway, assigned 118, caught the leader. The three horses hit the wire together with Victory Gallop a head in front of Hannuman Highway, who in turn was a head to the good of Favorite Trick, who suffered his first loss in ten starts.
Victory Gallop's next start would be in the Kentucky Derby. Favorite Trick was heading that way to.
Changing Course
Prior to the Arkansas Derby win, Victory Gallop had been pointed
for Canada's Queen's Plate, the country's most prestigious race and the oldest
continuously run horse race in North America. The Queen's Plate was the first
leg of Canada's Triple Crown, a series Victory Gallop would have contested had
he been kept by the Harts. With his win in the Arkansas Derby, he would now take a different course. It also marked Walden's first time bringing a
horse to America's most famous racing event. The last Canadian-bred to win the Derby
was Sunny's Halo in 1983, also via the Rebel and Arkansas Derby.
The drama begins
On May 2, fifteen entries walked into the starting gate at
Churchill Downs with more than 143,000 spectators present to witness the race's 124th
edition. Stakes winning entries were the Bob Baffert trained Indian Charlie
(Santa Anita Derby), Chilito (Flamingo Stakes), Victory Gallop, and Halory
Hunter (Blue Grass Stakes). From the rail out were Nationalore, Basic Trainee,
Real Quiet (stablemate of Indian Charlie), Halory Hunter, Chilito, Hanuman
Highway, Favorite Trick, Indian Charlie, Rock and Roll, Parade Ground, Cape
Town, Artax, Victory Gallop, Old Trieste, and Robinwould.
The Louisville area had experienced wet, chilly weather during Derby week but on Saturday the track was fast. When the gate opened longshots Basic Trainee and Old Trieste started things off and dictated the pace going into the clubhouse turn with Chilito and Indian Charlie tracking. Old Trieste advanced into outright leadership, followed by Rock and Roll, Chilito, and Favorite Trick. Six furlongs were covered in 1:10 3/5, and at a mile in 1:35 3/5, Old Trieste tired. Victory Gallop had been sixteen lengths back, and ahead of only one horse after six furlongs but had moved into seventh and began a powerful rally. Meanwhile Real Quiet, who had been in sixth position, was making his presence felt leaving the far turn, and at the mile mark passed Indian Charlie and Old Trieste to take the lead. With two furlongs left Real Quiet began to pull away from the others. Despite a troubled trip Victory Gallop had advanced into second. After trailing in the backstretch he had swept to the outside and closed with resolve in the stretch. At the wire he was a half length late of the winner Real Quiet.
Real Quiet had recorded his first win of the year, finishing the 1 1/4 mile test in 2:02 1/5. Indian Charlie hung on for third, a head in front of Halory Hunter. For Real Quiet's rider, Kent Desormeaux, it was the first Derby victory of his career. Real Quiet, who had been bought by Mike Peagram for $17,000, had in one race earned more than fifty times his price. A disappointing eighth was Favorite Trick.
Moving forward
Real Quiet and Indian Charlie would run in the $1 million
Preakness Stakes, in Baltimore, on May 16. The tentative plan for Victory
Gallop was to skip that race and wait until the Belmont Stakes on June 6. One
horse who had been withdrawn from the Derby, and was also questionable for the Pimlico classic
was Wood Memorial winner Coronado's Quest, trained by "Shug"
McGaughey. One of the most talented three-year-olds in the country, Coronado's Quest,
at age two, had won the Remsen, Cowdin, and Nashua Stakes (all grade 2). Bred
by Stuart Janney III, he was a son of Forty Niner out of the Damascus mare
Laughing Look.
Baquero, trained by D. Wayne Lukas, had good speed and could run with Coronado's Quest but he had never gone beyond seven furlongs or raced two turns, so his ability to hang around was questionable. Coronado's Quest was then scratched after bruising his right rear foot following a workout. He would tentatively make his next start in either the Met Mile or Belmont Stakes, pending recovery. Baquero and Black Cash were now the speed in the race. Real Quiet became the 2-1 favorite. Victory Gallop would have the services of Gary Stevens in the irons and was next at 5-2; however, at post time the two horses flip-flopped in favoritism.
Baquero, trained by D. Wayne Lukas, had good speed and could run with Coronado's Quest but he had never gone beyond seven furlongs or raced two turns, so his ability to hang around was questionable. Coronado's Quest was then scratched after bruising his right rear foot following a workout. He would tentatively make his next start in either the Met Mile or Belmont Stakes, pending recovery. Baquero and Black Cash were now the speed in the race. Real Quiet became the 2-1 favorite. Victory Gallop would have the services of Gary Stevens in the irons and was next at 5-2; however, at post time the two horses flip-flopped in favoritism.
Two down, one to go
Over the past few weeks Pimlico had been experiencing rain but the
day of the race the track was fast. The 123rd addition of racing's second jewel
had an attendance of more than 91,000 spectators, and for most of them it would not be a
comfortable day. There was a power outage due to a transformer malfunction,
leaving the venue dark on a hot afternoon.
When the race started, Real Quiet, breaking from the outside post among ten runners, lagged behind but slowly advanced in the far turn to put himself in fifth. He then accelerated to take the front after Baquero had dictated a mile in 1:35 4/5. Victory Gallop, who began as the eighth horse out, made his way through the bunch and eventually was the closest to the new leader. He was running strongly but unable to close any more ground and finished two and a quarter lengths behind Real Quiet at the finish. Real Quiet was now one race away from immortality and Victory Gallop would take another run at him.
Post race
After the Preakness, Victory Gallop suffered a skin rash and
Walden broke his ankle playing basketball. It was not a good way to go into the
third leg of racing's Triple Crown, called the "Test of the Champion"
which after months of preparation was the most grueling of the three races. The
Belmont Stakes, at 1 1/2 miles, was run over 'big sandy," Belmont Park's
cavernous track with wide, sweeping turns.
Except for gallops, Victory Gallop had just one workout between the Preakness and Belmont. Real Quiet, very tired after his win in Baltimore, finally had a work on May 24. He looked good, and covered five furlongs in :59 4/5, the second fastest of forty.
Halting history
The 130th running of the Belmont Stakes was on June 6, 1998, with
a turnout of 81,062 to see if Real Quiet could become the twelfth horse to join
American horse racing's most coveted club, and the first new member since
Affirmed twenty years earlier. With an eleven horse field Real Quiet would
break from post seven under Desormeaux. Victory Gallop, retaining Stevens, would leave from post nine. In addition to earning $600,000 of
the $1 million purse, Real Quiet would also receive a $5 million bonus from
Visa for a three race sweep.
At the break, everyone was away in good order. Chilito took the early lead, followed by Raffie's Majesty. Real Quiet was close to the pace in fifth followed by Thomas Jo and Basic Trainee. Victory Gallop straggled with only one horse, Classic Cat, behind him. Chilito took the group through dawdling opening fractions with a quarter in :23 3/5 and a half in :48 3/5, when Grand Slam moved into second. Chilito still called the shots after a six furlong split in 1:13 2/5. With three furlongs remaining, Real Quiet made his bid. Chilito was closest to the rail, with Grand Slam in the middle, and Real Quiet on the outside, as the trio separated themselves from everyone else. At the top of the stretch, Real Quiet took the lead, and built a four length advantage; but Victory Gallop was charging. Desormeaux urged his mount forward trying to get as much out of him as possible but Victory Gallop was relentless. As Victory Gallop reached the leader, Real Quiet initiated a bumping incident. It was apparent that the outcome would be extremely close and when the two horses hit the finish, they were inseparable. For a long agonizing moment the racing world was suspended in time until the result of the photo was determined. The margin was only a nose.
The winner was Victory Gallop.
A credit to Real Quiet
According to the stewards, due to the contact first made by Real Quiet during the race, even if he had reached the wire first, in all
probability would have been disqualified. They undoubtedly were thankful
that Victory Gallop prevailed, taking the outcome out of their hands, a decision which would have been one of the most unpopular in history.
Not everyone had been behind Real Quiet, with some individuals feeling he wasn't a horse worthy enough to belong among this elite group of eleven Triple Crown winners. These sentiments were unfortunate and unfair. In the most demanding series of Thoroughbred flat races anywhere in the world, Real Quiet had not only competed in all three contests, he had won the first two and lost the third by only a nose. If he wasn't made of the right mettle, nobody was. To lay his body on the line and barely miss reaching one of the greatest pinnacles in sports were true testimonies to the horse's character, ability, and stamina.
Real Quiet, a bay colt, looked so narrowly built when viewed frontally, that his barn nicknamed him "the fish." The son of mulitple stakes winner Quiet American, out of the Believe It mare Really Blue, Real Quiet was put away for the year. He would make five starts in 1999, all in graded stakes races, and cap off his career with a victory in the Hollywood Gold Cup (gr. 1). He would retire with a sparkling resume of twenty starts, six wins, five seconds, six thirds, and $3,271,802 in earnings, quite a return on an initial investment of $17,000.
The other adversary
Victory Gallop made three more starts on the year, all in grade one races. He was at Monmouth Park, on August 9, for the 1 1/8 mile
Haskell Invitational Handicap, offering a purse of $1 million.
He would meet Coronado's Quest, who after skipping the classics, later won the
Riva Ridge and Dwyer Stakes at Belmont Park.
The Haskell had a small field of six runners. Coronado's Quest was in contention early, and closely followed frontrunner Arctic Sweep, before moving to the front in the far turn, and repelling a challenge from Grand Slam. Victory Gallop broke fifth, and was more than eight lengths behind. He advanced to fourth with a five length deficit, and continued to inch his way forward until he was flying in the stretch; but he arrived second, one and a quarter lengths short of the winner, Coronado's Quest, who stopped the clock in 1:48 3/5.
Twenty days later Victory Gallop and Coronado's Quest met again in the $750,000 Travers Stakes (gr. 1) at Saratoga. There were seven entries with Victory Gallop breaking from the outside post. In the race's early stages, Victory Gallop was in fifth position. Raffie's Majesty was in the mix after being shuffled back at the start by Coronado's Quest. Victory Gallop advanced to third but at the wire his nose was just shy of Coronado's Quest, who finished the 1 1/4 mile race in 2:03 2/5. Raffie's Majesty was in third, a nose behind the runnerup.
Season finale
Victory Gallop returned on November 7, for the
Breeders' Cup Classic, at Churchill Downs, facing nine rivals among them Skip Away, Silver Charm, Swain, and Awesome Again. As was his
custom, he was behind early, before closing well to finish a
respectable fourth, only a length behind the winner Awesome Again, while just a nose shy of third finisher Swain.
Solid campaign
Victory Gallop earned $1,981,720 for his eight starts in 1998.
All his races were graded stakes, with the first two starts grade two's and the
remaining six grade one's. The Breeders' Cup was the only race where he
finished lower than second.
An honest horse
The son of Cryptoclearance-Victorious Lil seemed to be headed toward greatness. He
began his four-year-old campaign with a win on March 3, 1999, at Gulfstream
Park, in a 1 1/16 mile allowance, under Jerry Bailey, who would now ride the
colt for the duration of his career. The margin was two and three-quarter
lengths against a small field of four other runners. Three and a half weeks
later Victory Gallop found himself halfway around the world in the United Arab
Emirates for the Dubai World Cup, on March 28. In a field of eight, which
included fellow Americans Malek and the reigning Cup winner Silver Charm,
Victory Gallop stayed in midpack before closing with powerful resolve in deep
stretch to finish third, beaten only a length and a half by the winner
Almutawakel (GB).
Victory Gallop didn't race again until June 12, when he returned at Churchill Downs and won the 1 1/8 mile Stephen Foster Handicap (gr. 1) by five lengths, in stakes record time of 1:47.28, earning a career high Beyer of 118. In an anticipated matchup on August 1,Victory Gallop met the standout five-year-old Behrens, a multiple graded stakes winner, with victories in the Gulfstream Park and Oaklawn Handicaps (both grade 1). The contest was Saratoga's 1 1/8 mile Whitney Handicap (gr. 1). In the backstretch Behrens was at least five lengths behind the leader with Victory Gallop several more lengths further back. Behrens made a very wide move around the far turn and took the lead, while Victory Gallop, out on the track, began to sweep past horses. In the stretch Behrens maintained his lead but Victory Gallop was bearing down, and the two horses hit the wire together. Victory Gallop prevailed by a nose over a horse who would continue to be a standout. Behrens was long on heart, and the following year, at age six, captured his second Gulfstream Park Handicap, ran in a second Dubai World Cup, where he was runner-up to Dubai Millennium, and later that summer had an epic struggle with Lemon Drop Kid in the Woodward Stakes (gr. 1), a race he lost by a head. When he retired, Behrens had earned more than $4.5 million.
Victory Gallop didn't race again until June 12, when he returned at Churchill Downs and won the 1 1/8 mile Stephen Foster Handicap (gr. 1) by five lengths, in stakes record time of 1:47.28, earning a career high Beyer of 118. In an anticipated matchup on August 1,Victory Gallop met the standout five-year-old Behrens, a multiple graded stakes winner, with victories in the Gulfstream Park and Oaklawn Handicaps (both grade 1). The contest was Saratoga's 1 1/8 mile Whitney Handicap (gr. 1). In the backstretch Behrens was at least five lengths behind the leader with Victory Gallop several more lengths further back. Behrens made a very wide move around the far turn and took the lead, while Victory Gallop, out on the track, began to sweep past horses. In the stretch Behrens maintained his lead but Victory Gallop was bearing down, and the two horses hit the wire together. Victory Gallop prevailed by a nose over a horse who would continue to be a standout. Behrens was long on heart, and the following year, at age six, captured his second Gulfstream Park Handicap, ran in a second Dubai World Cup, where he was runner-up to Dubai Millennium, and later that summer had an epic struggle with Lemon Drop Kid in the Woodward Stakes (gr. 1), a race he lost by a head. When he retired, Behrens had earned more than $4.5 million.
Strong body of work
Victory Gallop had run his last race. It was discovered that he had torn the suspensory ligament in his left front leg. Upon retirement his resume was impressive. There had been seventeen starts, nine wins, five seconds, one third, and $3,505,895 in earnings. He had won or placed in eleven graded stakes races, seven of these grade one. He had finished unplaced only twice, in his juvenile debut going five furlongs, and the Breeders' Cup Classic when he ran a credible fourth. He had won from seven furlongs to 1 1/2 miles and at the end of his third campaign was deservedly voted Eclipse Champion Older Male.
The stallion
Victory Gallop has enjoyed considerable stallion success at home and internationally,
first standing at WinStar Farm in Kentucky, where he was leading second crop sire in 2004. He shuttled to Chili for the 2007 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, and
since 2008 has been at The Jockey Club of Turkey Stud Farms. Victory Gallop has thus far fathered 818 foals of racing age for 594 starters of which
more than 55% have been winners. Of these progeny, at least 50 have been stakes
winners, and the stallion's total progeny earnings to date are over $48
million.* A few of his offspring include the filly Victory U.S.A., a grade 2 winner, and multiple stakes placed, with a third place finish in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Filles; Norfolk Stakes (gr. 1) winner Jaycito; Prince Will I Am, winner of the Jamaica Handicap (gr. 1T); Eishin Dover, a racer in Japan and winner of the Keio Hai Spring Cup (JPN II); and Pennsylvania Derby and Kentucky Jockey Club victor (both gr. 2), Anak Nakal. Other stakes winners include Galloping Gal, Victory Thrill, and Victory Alleged et al.
Rightful place
In 2010 Victory Gallop was inducted into the Canadian Racing Hall of Fame. His achievements speak for a horse who was honest, giving, and performed like every race was the most important and last. In some respects, he had indeed achieved greatness, not because of one or two memorable moments, but in where he is placed in the hearts of racing enthusiasts in Canada. His legacy should flourish, as his influence expands in North America and internationally.
*The writer is not certain if this is the most updated information, or if the figures include Victory Gallop's stud duty in Chili and/or Turkey.
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Joseph Dorso, "Horse Racing; Real Quiet Takes Back Seat at No. 11," The New York Times, May 14, 1998, www.nytimes.com, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/14/sports/horse-racing-real-quiet-takes-back-seat-at-no-11.html?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2FReal%2BQuiet%2BTakes%2BBack%2BSeat%2Bat%2BNo.%2B11%2Ffrom19980503to19980515%2F
"Preakness: Real Quiet now one victory from Triple Crown," Daily Herald, May 17, 1998, p. 7.
Jay Privman, "Horse Racing; Pullout of Front-Runner Puts Pace Into Question," The New York Times, May 16, 1998, www.nytimes.com, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/16/sports/horse-racing-pullout-of-front-runner-puts-pace-into-question.html?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2FPullout%2Bof%2BFront-Runner%2BPuts%2BPace%2BInto%2BQuestion%2Ffrom19980503to19980517%2F
Joseph Durso, "Horse Racing; Bruise on Coronado's Quest Leads to a Scratch," The New York Times, May 16, 1998, www.nytimes.com, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/16/sports/horse-racing-bruise-on-coronado-s-quest-leads-to-a-scratch.html?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2FBruise%2Bon%2BCoronado%27s%2BQuest%2BLeads%2Bto%2Ba%2BScratch%2Ffrom19980503to19980517%2F
Joseph Durso, "Horse Racing; Real Quiet Has 2 Legs Up on Triple Crown," The New York Times, May 17, 1998, www.nytimes.com, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/17/sports/horse-racing-real-quiet-has-2-legs-up-on-triple-crown.html?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2FReal%2BQuiet%2Bhas%2B2%2Blegs%2Bup%2Bon%2BTriple%2BCrown%2Ffrom19980503to19980517%2F&version=meter+at+5®ion=FixedCenter&pgtype=Article&priority=true&module=RegiWall-Regi&action=click
Jay Privman, "Horse Racing; Notebook; Misfortune Lingering in Victory Gallop's Camp," The New York Times, May 29, 1998, www.nytimes.com, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/29/sports/horse-racing-notebook-misfortune-lingering-in-victory-gallop-s-camp.html?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%23%2FMisfortune%2BLingering%2Bin%2BVictory%2BGallop%27s%2BCamp%2F
Ed Schuyler, Jr., "Real Quiet arrives at Belmont," Wisconsin State Journal, June 4, 1998, p. 6c, col. 1.
Associated Press, "Real Quiet seeking to join elite company," Daily Herald, June 4, 1998, p. 8, col. 1.
Associated Press, "Triple Crown at Stake in Belmont," Daily Herald, June 6, 1998, p. 7, col. 3.
Ray Hailett, "Real Quiet deserves respect," Daily Herald, June 6, 1998, p. 7, col. 3.
Ed Schuyler, "No Triple Crown for Real Quiet; Victory Gallop wins Belmont Stakes," The Register-Herald, June 7, 1998, pp. 1D, col. 2, 2D, col. 6.
A.P., "Belmont stewards spared from making tough call," The Sunday Capital, June 7, 1998, p. C9 col. 1.
Associated Press, "At least Belmont was settled on the track," Daily Herald, June 8, 1998, p. 9, col. 1.
A.P., "Belmont Avoids Controversy," Daily News Record, June 8, 1998, p. 17, col. 1.
Terry Boers, "Snobs win but horse racing loses at Belmont," Daily Herald, June 11, 1998, p. 10, col. 1.
Daily Racing Form, Champions, p. 399.
Wire Services, "Coronado's Quest behaves and wins," Gettysburg Times, August 10, 1998, p. B4, col. 1.
A.P., "Is Victory Gallop headed for victory lap?" The Capital, August 29, 1998, p. C4, col. 2.
Associated Press, "Coronado's Quest wins Travers Stakes," Daily Herald, August 30, 1998, p. 9, col. 3.
The Associated Press, "Victory Gallop seeks another charm," Pacific Stars and Stripes, September 1, 1998, p. 29, col. 1.
"Breeders' Cup Appears Loaded," (Philadelphia Inquirer), The Gazette, November 7, 1998, p. 4a, col. 4.
A.P., "He's Awesome Again," The Gazette, November 8, 1998, p. 2B col. 2.
Associated Press, "Not much Charm in Dubai Cup," Daily Herald, March 29, 1999, p. 9, col. 1.
Amy Whitfield, "Leading 2nd Crop Sire 2004: Victory Gallop," Blood-Horse, January 5, 2005, http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/26057/leading-2nd-crop-sire-2004-victory-gallop
The Blood-Horse, Stallion Register for 2011, "Victory Gallop," (Lexington, KY: Blood-Horse Publications, 2010).
"Victory Gallop," Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, http://horseracinghalloffame.com/2010/01/01/test-post/
Copyright 2014 by John Califano
*The writer is not certain if this is the most updated information, or if the figures include Victory Gallop's stud duty in Chili and/or Turkey.
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Ray Hailett, "Post positions, luck often determine outcome in big races," Daily Herald, May 16, 1998, p. 7, col. 1.
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Associated Press, "Triple Crown at Stake in Belmont," Daily Herald, June 6, 1998, p. 7, col. 3.
Ray Hailett, "Real Quiet deserves respect," Daily Herald, June 6, 1998, p. 7, col. 3.
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A.P., "Belmont Avoids Controversy," Daily News Record, June 8, 1998, p. 17, col. 1.
Terry Boers, "Snobs win but horse racing loses at Belmont," Daily Herald, June 11, 1998, p. 10, col. 1.
Daily Racing Form, Champions, p. 399.
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The Associated Press, "Victory Gallop seeks another charm," Pacific Stars and Stripes, September 1, 1998, p. 29, col. 1.
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The Blood-Horse, Stallion Register for 2011, "Victory Gallop," (Lexington, KY: Blood-Horse Publications, 2010).
"Victory Gallop," Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame, http://horseracinghalloffame.com/2010/01/01/test-post/
Copyright 2014 by John Califano
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