'He did just what I expected' – how the 'Fox of Belair' won the Kentucky Derby en route to the Triple Crown | Topics: Churchill Downs, Triple Crown, Gallant Fox, Belair Stud, 'Sunny Jim' Fitzsimmons, Kentucky Derby

Article by Jennifer S. Kelly: In this extract from her new book, The Foxes of Belair: Gallant Fox, Omaha and the Quest for the Triple Crown, Jennifer S Kelly takes us back to Churchill Downs and a historic afternoon beneath the Twin Spires in 1930

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