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...horse, rider, and trainer. Arts And Letterswas the favorite at odds of one to five. Factors contributing to these low odds were: 1. A ten-length victory in his last race, the Jim Dandy Stakes. 2. The presence in the saddle of the great race rider Braulio Baeza. 3. The solid reputation of trainer Eliot Burch. 4. The confidence of many New York bettors who love a favorite and positively adore a sure thing...
Gleaming Light with Larry Adams went to the lead with Hydrologist and Angel Cordero, Jr. a half-length behind on the outside. Three lengths behind that pair raced Distray and John L. Rotz on the rail with Arts And Letters and Braulio Baeza a neck away on the outside. Dike and Jorge Velasquez trailed these by five lengths, as always. After six furlongs and with a half-mile to go Arts And Letters and Dike began stalking the leaders...
...psych worked. The Belmont got off to such a slow start that in the backstretch Dike loped to a five-length lead. With a half-mile to go, Jockey Braulio Baeza eased Arts and Letters through an opening and went to the front. Jockey Bill Hartack, apparently thrown off stride by the slow early pace, made his bid coming into the homestretch. It was too late. Driving for the wire, Arts and Letters held the lead and won going away by 51 lengths over Majestic Prince, with Dike third. The game little colt picked up first-prize money...
...observer a foul was not evident. The collision of Majestic Prince with Arts and Letters as the horses broke from the gate seemed a more logical reason for claiming foul than any alleged interference on the clubhouse turn. The casual observer is unaware of the total genius of Braulio Baeza as a race rider...
...Baeza reacted a fifth of a second more slowly, the 94th Preakness field might have been sprayed all over the track. Baeza rides cleanly, says little, and seldom claims foul. With a run-of-the-mill reinsman an accident would have been a strong possibility and the foul claim inevitably sustained. Unfortunately, Baeza was victimized by his own greatness...