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Definition of Gallant fox
1. Noun. Thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1930.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gallant Fox
Literary usage of Gallant fox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1890)
"... And 'tis meet I tell my readers the proceedings on the day When they brought
to hand a gallant fox that lived out Scraptoft way. ..."
2. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1834)
"The other fox took his road away to Bellevue, and keeping straight to Venn Bridge,
the gallant fox ran about an hour and a half at ..."
3. Life and Writings of Frank Forester (Henry William Herbert.) by Henry William Herbert, Thomas Picton (1882)
"It was my fortune to be present at the last run afforded by this gallant fox,
and to assist, as the French call it, at his death. ..."
4. A History of the Meynell Hounds and Country, 1780-1901 by James Lowndes Randall (1901)
"George Allsopp and Mitchell, and Dick Somers (first whip) crossed; the rest went
round, and found us with our gallant fox ..."
5. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1875)
"Nothing but the determination and patience of the hounds and their huntsman killed
this gallant fox, and it is no mean achievement to handle an old woodland ..."
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