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Looping the Field. The way he goes about winning makes the victories even gaudier. In July's $100,000 Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, Gun Bow galloped 1¼ miles in 1 min. 593/5 sec.-the fastest mile-and-a-quarter in the history of New York racing. He won by twelve lengths. In the $54,300 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga last month, Gun Bow was unruly in the gate, broke dead last. Charging after the field, he suddenly spotted a leaf on the track, set himself like a steeplechaser approaching a hedge, and jumped. Then he settled down...
...thing is, the butcher wins-on all kinds of horses, on all kinds of tracks. "I try," he explains precisely, "to get my horse to the wire first." Fortnight ago, at New York's Aqueduct, Ussery booted home an astonishing five winners in seven mounts, followed this two days later with a triple. Last week he was a triple winner again, won seven other races, bringing his season's record on the country's toughest, most competitive track to 131, and making him undisputed top jock at the Big A. (Johnny Rotz, in second place, has only...
...pounding pack. "You just have to make 'em win anyway," he says. And in the early days, for Ussery that often meant flogging and kicking a horse to the finish line by brute force. Rage and frustration still get the better of him once in a while. At Aqueduct one race last week, he had the lead at the three-quarter-mile mark, and then the horse went into a dead fade as the rest of the field tore by. Ussery was still fruitlessly, angrily whipping as he came in a long last...
...Horses for courses," the old saying goes. It was never truer than last week, when a big bay who fancies Aqueduct Race Track the way most horses fancy sugar cubes, won the Belmont Stakes-thus dashing Northern Dancer's hopes of becoming the first Triple Crown winner since Citation...
...BELMONT STAKES (CBS, 4:30-5 p.m.). The 96th running of the oldest U.S. racing classic, at Aqueduct, N.Y., in which all eyes will be on Northern Dancer, who, if he wins, will become the first triple-crown winner since...