The big bay was supposed to roll down the stretch and into an equine stratosphere alongside Sir Barton, Gallant Fox, Omaha, War Admiral, Whirlaway, Count Fleet, Assault, Citation, Secretariat, Seattle Slew and Affirmed.
Triple Crown champions U.S. year horse 1919 Sir Barton 1930 Gallant Fox 1935 Omaha 1937 War Admiral 1941 Whirlaway 1943 Count Fleet 1946 Assault 1948 Citation 1973 Secretariat 1977 Seattle Slew 1978 Affirmed 2015 American Pharoah.
Sir Roger Bannister said: "Chris was gallant and brave right to the end, he had won so many battles in his life.
Marsh goes on to say that Richardson's defense of Clinton was "gallant," a word that harkens back to Sir Walter Raleigh and the chivalric notion of the hapless female.
In the museum vault, not far from the high-dollar horse paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959), are the six horseshoes Gallant Fox wore in winning the 1930 Kentucky Derby and Preakness.
Johnny Depp has paid tribute to Sir Christopher Lee, saying he was "as noble and gallant as he was wise".
For 10 weeks' work, Sir Charles Mendl took home $10,000 for portraying the Commodore, a gallant who proposes a Havana cruise to Ingrid Bergman.
It was largely because of Gallant Fox's illustrious accomplishments in horse racing three years later that Sir Gallahad III became one of the world's leading stallions through the 1930s and '40s.
I had not dreamed up the scandal of the eviction of his father, Sir Denis Hamilton, as chairman of Murdoch's national directors; on that gallant man's death, the Times obituary suppressed this entire period of his life.
"Not since Sir Philip Sydney's heroic death," exclaimed fellow-poet Lascelles Abercrombie, "have we lost such a gallant and joyous type of the poet soldier".
