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Racing at Saratoga is hardly lucrative. The unrepentantly old-fashioned track holds only 30,000 spectators (v. 80,000 at Long Island's Aqueduct) and earns enough money to cover only 90% of its purses. The New York Racing Association makes up the deficit. That annoys Albany politicians, who nowadays count on racing revenues to provide some $110 million (about 4%) of the budget, and would like an even bigger take. But a tradition-honoring state law guarantees Saratoga 24 days of racing each year, and horsemen insist that they will never give them up. "Not till the springs...
...year. There are some 80,000 private pools, and new pool permits are issued at a rate of 12,000 a year. Two out of every nine pool owners in the U.S. live there and cavort in 1,600,000,000 gallons of precious rain water brought in by aqueduct every day. But into every pool of rain water somebody's little life may fall. From 1952 to 1959, 102 people drowned in the backyard. And the present accident rate costs Los Angeles some 30 lives a year. By law, pool owners must fence pools off from public access...
...Triple Crown by winning the Belmont Stakes on Sherluck, a 65-1 longshot. Last year Baeza rode $2,048,428 worth of winners-more than any other jockey except Shoemaker. Last week, fresh from his Derby victory, Baeza rode seven winners in four days at Aqueduct, boosted his winning average for the meeting to an incredible...
...other horses have outside chances. Sky Wonder is rapidly improving; he finished a sharp second in the Withers at Aqueduct last Saturday. On My Honor was fast-finishing fourth in the Derby, but the Preakness distance of 13/16 miles is probably a bit too short...
...fifth race at Aqueduct on April 20 an unbeaten three-year-old named No Robbery was scheduled to meet a field of older horses. No Robbery had raced three times before and won them all, but against worthless horses. His opposition at Aqueduct was not spectacular, but his performance was: No robbery led from wire to wire; although he was eased up at the end, he won by ten lengths, ran the fastest mile ever clocked for a three-year-old in the history of New York racing, and missed the track record by two-fifths of a second...