...strides by Touch Gold in a mad three-horse stretch dash in 1997.Real Quiet lost the closest bid ever by a churning Victory Gallop in 1998, as the Derby and Preakness runner-up claimed a photo finish win in the final stride.Charismatic got...

...Mott was a stand-in for Elliott Walden in 1998 when Victory Gallop got up by a nose to deny Real Quiet a Triple Crown...basketball game and hobbled around as he prepared Victory Gallop for the Belmont. On raceday, Walden called on Mott...

...the colt in the Belmont. And in 1998, he brought Real Quiet into the Belmont for a Triple try only to get beat by Victory Gallop by a nose in a heartbreaking defeat. "I hope from now on we'll talk about winning one," Desormeaux said. There...

...entered the far turn, the leaders had worn each other out, Real Quiet had cruised into the lead and then held off Victory Gallop to win by a half length. "I decided I wasn't going to get involved with that lead group," Desormeaux said...

...Charm - belonged to Baffert. "I thought I had it with Real Quiet," Baffert said, referring to the 1998 race when Victory Gallop overcame a four-length lead in the final one-eighth of a mile. "That horse today, he took them as far as he...

...Solis said, who is now winless in 11 starts and second for the third time in four years (Captain Bodgit in '97, Victory Gallop in '98). "It'll be hard to stop him." Reach Rick Dorsey at (706) 823-3219 .0]rdorsey@augustachronicle...

...and Stephen Got Even. Menifee, also second in the 1 1/4 -mile Derby, is trained by Elliott Walden, trainer of Victory Gallop, who finished second last year in the Derby and Preakness, then beat Real Quiet in the Belmont. Stephen Got Even's...

...couldn't make up any ground in the last 16th." Menifee was the favorite, as was the Elliott Walden-trained Victory Gallop, second in the Preakness in 1998. Walden now has four seconds in the last five Triple Crown races. "My horse had...

...driving Menifee, who gave trainer Elliott Walden his second runner-up finish in his second Derby. Last year, his Victory Gallop finished behind Real Quiet. Menifee finished three-quarters of a length ahead of Cat Thief, who was 1 1/4 lengths...

...ridden by Pat Day, shot between Silver Charm and Victory Gallop. Silver Charm finished a neck in front of Britain-based...whipping by Frankie Dettori. Belmont Stakes winner Victory Gallop, owned by the Preston brothers and trained by Elliott...