Word: amberoid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final examination in Chaucer was scheduled on the same day that Kauai King would be trying to win the Triple Crown at Belmont Park. I knew nothing about the Canterbury Tales but I did know something about Amberoid in the Belmont Stakes. So I went to the track...
...those who don't happen to remember, the 1966 Belmont ended in a tremendous upset with the beloved Kauai King reaching the finish line a beaten animal. The winner was none other than Amberoid who paid $13 and had the solid backing of at least one Harvard student who was in the crowd that day. So Andrew Beyer is either very lucky or a psychic. In any case, he made the right choice in leaving Harvard...
...twelve indifferent years of trying to overcome his appetite and mediocre mounts, he turned to horse training in New England. Laurin soon won a reputation for nursing sore-legged horses back to good form. After training such winners as Quill, the champion two-year-old filly of 1958, and Amberoid, winner of the 1966 Belmont Stakes, he joined A.B. ("Bull") Hancock's Claiborne Farm. On one memorable afternoon in 1969, he saddled Claiborne's Dike to win the Wood Memorial while another of his entries, Jay Ray, was winning the California Derby. Lucien succeeded his son Roger...