Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bayeux got panicky and tried to kick his way out of the airplane. Despite all his armor (a helmet, knee guards and heavy leg bandages), by the time he was unloaded in New York Bayeux was bruised and scratched. Four days later, the two horses paraded postward at Belmont Park to take their shot at Citation in the $100,000 Gold...
...manager of Bermuda's Belmont Manor Hotel stiffly requested the U.S. Navy to make the hotel "off bounds" for enlisted men. Rear Admiral Austin K. Doyle, the U.S. commandant, even more stiffly replied that he would put it off bounds for officers too. Said he: "The customs of my country do not permit discrimination between officers and men in public places...
...diathermy treatments; the horse for an old hip injury and Jockey Eddie Arcaro for a recent and painful dislocated shoulder. Muttered Eddie: "I can't hit a horse or anything." But rather than let another jockey ride Citation in last week's $25,000 Sysonby Mile at Belmont, Arcaro got a shot of novocaine in his lame shoulder and climbed aboard. If worst came to worst, he decided he could whip with his left hand...
...Citation's 23rd victory in 25 starts (including the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont, American Derby), and boosted his earnings to $744,650, third highest in history. There had never been another horse like him since Man O' War, and plenty of horsemen were arguing that he was the best ever...
Party Line. In Manhattan, the Communist Daily Worker correctly picked Iron Curtain as the winner of the fifth race at Belmont...