Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winning. Red-faced Max Hirsch, his trainer, complained to newsmen: "If you had a horse that won the Derby and the Preakness, wouldn't you say he was a pretty fair horse?" Most of the 43,599 people who streamed out last week to watch the $100,000 Belmont Stakes apparently didn't think so yet. Elizabeth Arden Graham's moody Lord Boswell, which had already lost two of horse racing's Big Three to Assault, was the favorite again...
Consuelo Vanderbilt Warburton, daughter of the late William K. Vanderbilt and granddaughter of the late Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, flew into Reno to have it done again. Her third ex-husband would be Commander William John Warburton of Manhattan's Racquet & Tennis Club...
Besides this quiet library there is no other place about his Belmont home that is like a scholar's retreat. Professor McIlwain and his family share the rambling, three-story house with his "houn" pack--three cocker spaniels and a German shepherd. Lizzie, the shepherd, is a rather lethargic creature, but the cockers, trailing a flying wake of carpets, play a floppy-eared game of follow the leader in and out of doorways, up and down the stairs...
...golf team, after a wartime period of suspended animation is functioning again, although it no longer has the use of the Belmont Country Club and practices now at the Brookline Municipal Course...
...Pilot, moved up to threaten in the stretch, but instead of being awed by the competition, Knockdown went on to win by two lengths. The prize: 37 times Knockdown's purchase price. He thus became a good bet for the Big Three coming up (Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont), whose purses have been boosted to $100,000 this year...