| Owner: Belair Stud Breeder: Belair Stud State Bred: KY Winnings: 22 Starts: 9 - 7 - 2, $154,755 (NA & UK)
At 2:
2nd: Junior Champion Stakes, Sanford Stakes, Champagne Stakes.
At 3:
Won: Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont, Dwyer Stakes, Arlington Classic
2nd: Withers Stakes
3rd: Brooklyn Handicap, Wood Memorial
At 4:
Won: Victor Wild Stakes (GB), Queen's Plate (GB)
2nd: Ascot Gold Cup (GB), Prince of Wales's Stakes (GB)
(1935) Triple Crown Winner.
The only TC winner to not win Horse of the Year. (that honour went Discovery)
He is the son of 1930 U.S. Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox. The only father and son generational Triple Crown.
Retired to stand at stud at Claiborne Farm, he failed to perform satisfactorily. But this "stud failure" is third generation dam sire to Nijinsky II along with 3 other Kentucky Derby champions.
Omaha died in 1959 in the his namesake city.
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