Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moving easily through the mist at Belmont Park. Belair Stud's big bay champion Nashua won as he pleased (by nine lengths, odds 3-20) in the 87th running of the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes. Meanwhile. 3,000 miles away at Hollywood Park, Swaps, the long-striding chestnut colt that beat Nashua in the Kentucky Derby, took on Determine, the 1954 Derby winner, and came home a length in front in the $109,800 Californian. Swaps's time: a world record 1:40-2/5 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth course...
...Belmont Stakes (Sat. 4:30 p.m., CBS). Fred Capossela calls the annual $100,000 classic at Belmont...
...race (130 Ibs.), King Ranch's brown colt High Gun, competing for the first time this year, worried his backers by swinging wide on the stretch turn, then straightened out to run away from an impressive field and won the Metropolitan Handicap by 4½ lengths at Belmont Park...
...odds-on favorite to win his eleventh race in a row, Paul Andolino's disheveled little sprinter, Boston Doge, just could not get going on Belmont's damp track, finished a bad third behind Nance's Lad and Informant in the Swift Stakes...
...Permanent Class Committee of the Class of '55 appointed Richard S. Dolins '55, of Lowell and Hyannis, as secretary of the committee, and Walter H. McLaughlin, Jr. '55 of Kirkland and Belmont, as treasurer...