Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triple crown, the great grey put on three breathtaking finishing sprints that would have done credit to "Snapper" Garrison, the jockey who became immortal for his come-from-behind finishes. The Dancer lost the Kentucky Derby by a head, won the Preakness by a neck, won the Belmont by an even shorter neck. Last week the Dancer, now a full-grown four-year-old, was back again, this time going after racing's triple handicap crown (the Metropolitan, Suburban and Brooklyn). In his first handicap race, carrying a top impost of 130 Ibs., the Dancer proved once again...
Millions of TV fans and some 40,000 racegoers at New York's Belmont Park (who backed the Dancer down to 1-4) gasped as the field rounded the turn at the head of the stretch. With only a quarter of a mile of the mile-long race to go, the Dancer was fifth, a full seven lengths behind front-running Straight Face. At that point Jockey Eric Guerin gave the Dancer four sharp raps with his whip...
...York, making a 1954 debut, Alfred G. Vanderbilt's great grey colt Native Dancer, odds-on (3-20), romped off with Belmont Park's $15,000 Commando Purse. The race was a warmup for this week's Metropolitan, first event in racing's handicap triple crown, where the Dancer will carry...
...today's games, only the JVs enter their game with a losing record. They have yet to win, after two losses and a tie. The freshman "B" team won its only game, with Belmont Hill...
Frederick B. Churchill '55 of Belmont, Mass., and Winthrop House has been elected president of the Harvard Ski Club for 1954-55. Thacher W. White '56 of New Britain, Conn., and Eliot House will be the vice-president and Charles H. Thomas '56 of Newport, R.I., and Lowell House, secretary-treasurer...