Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Island's Belmont Park, Count Fleet romped off with the Belmont Stakes for a clean sweep of America's five spring specials for three-year-olds. Just as in the Wood Memorial, Derby, Preakness and Withers, there was no one to press the colt that started his racing career last summer as the fastest two-year-old of all time...
...winter U.S. railbirds have been buzzing about fabulous Count Fleet. Those who saw him run in the Champagne Stakes last fall can never forget the sight of the Hertzes' yellow silks flying down the Belmont backstretch. That was the fastest mile (1:34 4/5) ever run by a two-year-old, and was only 2/5 of a second away from the world's record set by the late great Equipoise when he was a four-year...
This year the Count's behavior has improved. So far he has had no romantic notions-as he did in last fall's Belmont Futurity when he took a shine to a filly named Askmenow and refused to pass her in the stretch. But he still refuses to be bullied. He makes his own decisions during a race, diving into narrow openings that would stump a less self-possessed, less determined horse. Each race he takes in stride, even eats an enormous meal immediately afterward - a rarity for a highstrung thoroughbred...
...Vera Bragg's Gold Shower, clocked at 1:35 3/5 for a mile (only one second over Count Fleet's record) and 2:04 for the Derby distance of a mile-and-a-quarter during a workout at Belmont last week...
...also revealed the names of several newly-appointed class officials. Albert P. Everts '44 of Winthrop House and Newtonville was chosen new head of the committee and Grover O'Neill, Jr. '44 of 5 Linden Street and Oyster Bay, L. I.; and David Baldwin '44 of Leverett House and Belmont were added to its membership. O'Neill and Baldwin were runners-up for the post in the class elections and will replace members who have left College...