Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, Ky., on the day the Gallant Fox Memorial Handicap was being run at Jamaica, Belair Stud's great bay stallion Gallant Fox died at the age of 27. One of the few thoroughbreds ever to win racing's Triple Crown (The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in 1930), the Fox of Belair also was the first such winner to sire another; his son, Omaha, turned the trick...
...soon she had cut her way through the upper crust of three continents. Included among the names she drops: Actress Elsie Jams' mother, a thrifty Ohio housewife intent on buying her way into British society ("John dear, fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont, arbiter of New York society ("Every woman should marry twice-the first time for money, the second time for love"), and Sir Lionel Phillips, a South African millionaire who would look at his own portrait and sardonically quote Whistler: "The innate vulgarity of the subject almost exceeds that of the painter...
...York's Belmont Park, Belair Stud's big bay colt, Nashua, got a skillful hand ride from Jockey Eddie Arcaro, needed just one whack of the whip to hold off a determined last-furlong drive by Mrs. R. A. Firestone's Summer Tan and win the 65th running of the season's juvenile classic, the Futurity...
With his two new jobs, Brower will have little time for walking and theatre going. But though he will certainly become as deeply enmeshed in his new position as he does in everything else, he has wisely decided to keep his house in Belmont as a "home for tired academics." There he can retire with his wife, three children and the Sunday theatre section and escape at least for a day the ceaseless drumming on the door of Apthrop House...
...heart ailment; in Manhattan. Son of a Mississippi River steamboat captain, he began handicapping in 1914, worked at virtually every track in the country before settling down in 1935 to placing weights for the 1,500 races a year at New York's four tracks (Aqueduct, Belmont, Jamaica, Saratoga). Blunt, owlish Louisianian Campbell remained blandly unperturbed by owners' and trainers' protests over his weight assignments, calmly pursued the handicapper's dream, i.e., a race so perfectly handicapped that all entries would finish in a dead heat. He came closer to perfection than any racing secretary...